[Bug localedata/18408] Provide software utility to permit user created custom locales

["byrnejb at harte-lyne dot ca" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18408

--- Comment #15 from James B. Byrne <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> ---
(In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #12) 
> 
> Yes, that is true. It's hard to validate this data and there are few
> interested developers working on it. We went through a large spat of
> cleanups a few years back where I diligently emailed 20 or 30 embassys and
> none got back to me. My inclination is that legal requirements are moot at
> this point, users want locales that match their customs and styles, and
> governments need custom locales anyeways to meet their often stricter need.
>

I am not in the happy position of being able to dictate to the Canada Revenue
Agency how we will format our date time sequences when transmitting data; quite
the reverse in fact.  We solved this problem for ourselves through my efforts
but it seems to me likely that others will encounter it and it seems to me a
needless burden to place on the shoulders of others.

I point out that he Libre/Open Office developers will not provide a
straight-forward way to set a default date and time format other than through
the system locale (to do so requires creation of custom templates for each
document type).  So this is not simply an issue that affects a handful of
rarefied users. Canadian and U.S. banks also now require dates in yyyy-mm-dd
format.  What was acceptable sixteen years ago is long deprecated in practice.

The present arrangement is the absolute antithesis of the current UX buzz.

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