On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:04:59 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Sat,29.May.10, 22:58:59, Brian Marshall wrote:
>> 
>> Any idea why the default was changed? I guess it didn't really make
>> sense to change the date format based on whether it was an ISO-8859 or
>> UTF-8 locale? (en_US.ISO-8859, to my knowledge, has always used the
>> date format that en_US.UTF-8 is now using.)
> 
> Why not? This way people using other languages now have a localized
> date.

Having an option to change the default is very good, but ISO date 
representation is there precisely to avoid the date localization madness, 
so I for one would also expect as default the using of ISO date standard.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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