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

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Koerg Reisenweber <joerg_bugzilla_sourceware at reisenweber dot net> changed:

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--- Comment #19 from Koerg Reisenweber <joerg_bugzilla_sourceware at reisenweber dot net> ---
(In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #16)
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> 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
> 
> I expect the territory specific entries would be:
> - week
> - d_t_fmt
> - d_fmt
> - t_fmt
> - t_fmt_ampm
> - am_pm
> 
> This is as Mike argues in his email.
> 
> In which case users would see their language-specific day names, month
> names, etc, but the start of the week is always going to be Monday per
> ISO8601, and date and time formats will be ISO8601.
> 
> The outliers are t_fmt_ampm, which doesn't exist in ISO8601, so it should
> IMO be identical to t_fmt, and am_pm should be an empty set.
> 
> Thus do we all agree that we *don't* want ISO 8601?
> 
> That what we really want is layered locales with language/territory layering?
> 
> If you object, please describe some other kind of model that you're
> considering.

sounds excellent, any progress on this?
/jOERG

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