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Re: LC_TIME first_weekday locale consolidation
- From: Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 21:55:30 +0100
- Subject: Re: LC_TIME first_weekday locale consolidation
- References: <20090307203614.GK5374@const.famille.thibault.fr>
Petr Baudis wrote:
> it has been for long documented that DAY_1 in nl_langinfo() is
> always Sunday and many applicaitons might rely on it; thus, it
> would be probably safer to keep this convention in order to not
> confuse applications that are not aware of first_weekday and week[2]
> (week_1stday).
Then quite a few locales need to be fixed in that direction. Or we make
these applications get fixed by making the en_US locale be ISO 8601
conforming (i.e. week[2] is 19971201) and let them react.
Samuel