[Bug localedata/4628] Provide rump locales with ISO 8601 variants for use with LC_TIME

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4628

--- Comment #17 from Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu dot com> ---
On 2016-05-20 23:08, carlos at redhat dot com wrote:
> --- Comment #16 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> --- 
> (In reply to Gunnar Hjalmarsson from comment #15)
>> On 2016-05-20 17:30, carlos at redhat dot com wrote:
>>> Does that clarify why non-English speakers should be able to set 
>>> LC_TIME to C@iso8601?
>> 
>> I'm afraid it isn't that easy. LC_TIME includes month and weekday
>> names, which are often used by e.g. calendar apps.
> 
> Then you don't want LC_TIME to follow ISO 8601?

I want to encourage/make it easier (not enforce) to use ISO 8601 like date and
time formats. That's one thing. Another thing is that LC_TIME unfortunately(?)
includes localized month and weekday names.

> Which might look like `export LC_TIME=en_US:C@iso8601` which says use
> US English language information for language-specific requirements,
> but consider the territory to be generic and following ISO 8601.
> 
> I expect language specific entries would be:
> - abday
> - day
> - abmon
> - mon

If those could be broken out from LC_TIME somehow, it would indeed make some
things easier. Suppose it whouldn't be easily accomplished, though...

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