Re: week description in locales

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 28 Jun 2016 15:15, Michael Meskes wrote:
> while debugging ncal I found that most (not all) European locales have
> the week information as "7;19971130;4", However, the comment in C
> suggests that "ISO 8601 conforming applications should use the values
> 7, 19971201 (a Monday), and 4 (Thursday), respectively". Now afaik
> Europe does use ISO 8601 making me wonder if the entries need
> correction. 
> 
> I do not know if there is any application out there really using this
> bit of information because the first day of the week is defined
> as first_weekday, too. 

the wiki has the current status:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Locales#LC_TIME

and the current git should follow that.  which is to say, every locale
should be using 19971130 now as its start date, and all locales use a
1 or 4 for the minweeklen.  all locales use 7 for daysinweek.
-mike

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