Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 12:29:11 -0400 From: "A.J. Kehoe IV (Nanoman)" <nanoman@nanoman.ca> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Custom locale to use ISO 8601 date format Message-ID: <20150607162911.GB61785@nanocomputer.nanoman.ca> In-Reply-To: <20150607153130.GA80377@ozzmosis.com> References: <20150607085130.GA77300@ozzmosis.com> <20150607144231.GA61785@nanocomputer.nanoman.ca> <20150607153130.GA80377@ozzmosis.com>
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--K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable andrew clarke wrote: >On Sun 2015-06-07 10:42:32 UTC-0400, A.J. Kehoe IV (Nanoman) (nanoman@nano= man.ca) wrote: > >> >Here in Australia the general population uses the British DD/MM/YY >> >format for representing dates, eg. today is 07/06/15, and the >> >en_AU.UTF-8 locale in FreeBSD 10.1 honours that: >> > >> >lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 17 Feb 2011 /usr/share/locale/en_AU.UTF-= 8/LC_TIME -> ../en_GB.UTF-8/LC_TIME >> > >> >However I wanted programs to use the ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD date format >> >(2015-06-07) instead. To do this in Linux, the general method seems to >> >set LC_TIME=3Den_DK.utf8, but FreeBSD has no locale by that name. >> >> [...] >> >> Thanks for sharing your patch, Andrew! Personally, I wish everybody >> would adopt ISO 8601, or even ISO 2014, which was standardized twelve >> years earlier in the year 1976. > >I'd like to see that too, I'm not holding my breath. Maybe after the US >moves to metric... ;-) But then visitors to the United States would feel less like they're visitin= g a foreign country! And the imperial to metric conversion app on my mobil= e telephone would become less useful. >I'm not suggesting en_AU.*/LC_TIME be changed system-wide. The patch >just works for me locally and I'm fine with that. My understanding is that the Australian government hasn't adopted ISO 8601,= so I wouldn't suggest this either. >> Canada uses ISO 8601, but this isn't reflected in FreeBSD's en_CA >> locale, so I submitted this patch: >> >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D200079 > >That's encouraging to hear. I think you'll need to provide a >better source than Wikipedia though. You're right. Canada's official time is defined by National Research Counc= il Canada. They recommend ISO 8601: http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/index.html http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/faq/#Q8 >Also, obviously what the standards association has adopted and what's >actually used by the general public can be two different things. >System locales should probably err on the side of what is already >being used. Of course what is being used can also be dictated by the >system locale, so it's a bit chicken-and-egg really. > >And all of this assumes the programs you use honour your chosen >locale. Some apps blindly ignore it, and some have their own setting >for the date/time format, with the pros and cons of doing that. I agree. Here's an example that may never be adopted: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2550.txt >> After somebody commits this patch (or a patch that does something >> similar), you could use en_CA instead of having to manually patch >> every system you maintain. > >I could, but I'll be doing the latter since it means I'll always have >complete control over my locale. Plus I only maintain a couple of FreeBSD >systems where locale really matters to me on a daily basis. A once-off >rsync of $HOME/locale/ is no big deal. Still, it would be nice to be able to change only LC_TIME if you're in a co= untry that doesn't use ISO 8601. Fortunately for me, all the systems I'm r= esponsible for are in Canada, so I wouldn't have to do anything other than = get this patch committed. --=20 A.J. 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