[Bug localedata/12731] en_CA: date-time format doesn't respect CAN/CSA-Z234.4 - ISO 8601

["carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12731

Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Alexandre Demers from comment #2)
> According to National Research Council Canada (NRC) and to Standard Council
> of Canada (SCC), the standard for date time format in Canada has to follow
> CAN/CSA-Z234.4 which says mostly the same as ISO 8601. Have a look at the
> official site
> (http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/ibp/inms/about/faq-time.html#Q8):
> 
> "Canadian Standard CAN Z234-4 specifies numeric representations of date and
> time. The recommended full format is of the form 2001-12-31 23:59:28.73 UTC.
> It is compatible with International Standard ISO 8601."
> 
> This means this is the format people are (should be) expecting. Thus, the
> current locale file is incorrect and the patch should be applied. Without
> the patch, the en_CA locale follows the US standard, which is one of the
> none official way of writting the date time format here (we use three
> different ways to write date time, but only one is official and should be
> used).

As a participating member of SCC's CAC/JTC1/SC22 my perspective is that while
the standard is fine for Government use, the en_CA locale is intended for
colloquial use. If you have government uses then you need to create your own
locale.

I believe we will solve this with a C.UTF-8@ISO8601 locale that follows the ISO
8601 time standard and can be used for LC_TIME to replace the current locales
time.

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