On 2020-05-06 13:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: locales > Version: 2.30-5 > Severity: wishlist > > I'm using LC_TIME=en_DK for the ISO 8601 date format, i.e. when > written with digits. But the default date format seems to be the > same one as LC_TIME=C and should be improved. This has currently > been done only for US:
Please note that the en_US change is controversial and likely going to be reverted. See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25923 I guess the same argument will apply to other locales, ie that we should change things that have been like that for decades. > $ for i in $(locale -a | grep en_); do printf "%-20s" $i; LC_TIME=$i date; > done > en_AG Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_AU Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_AU.utf8 Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_BW Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_BW.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_CA Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_CA.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_DK Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_DK.iso885915 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_DK.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_GB Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_GB.iso885915 Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_GB.utf8 Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_HK Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_HK.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_IE Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_IE.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_IE@euro Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_IL Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_IN Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_NG Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_NZ Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_NZ.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_PH Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_PH.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_SC.utf8 Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_SG Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_SG.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_US Wed 06 May 2020 01:46:50 PM CEST > en_US.iso885915 Wed 06 May 2020 01:46:50 PM CEST > en_US.utf8 Wed 06 May 2020 01:46:50 PM CEST > en_ZA Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_ZA.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_ZM Wed 6 May 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_ZW Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > en_ZW.utf8 Wed May 6 13:46:50 CEST 2020 > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: bullseye/sid > APT prefers unstable-debug > APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, > 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX > (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages locales depends on: > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.74 > ii libc-bin 2.30-5 > ii libc-l10n 2.30-5 > > locales recommends no packages. > > locales suggests no packages. > > -- debconf information: > * locales/default_environment_locale: None > * locales/locales_to_be_generated: All locales > > -- > Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> > 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> > Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) > > -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net