Re: Date formatting with en_US locale

From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 17:15:08 +0200
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:55:08AM -0300, Otacílio wrote:
> Em 26/05/2016 11:49, Baptiste Daroussin escreveu:
> > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 09:44:25AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> >> Baptiste and -current,
> >>
> >> I noticed two annoyances with date formatting on head, and I wonder how
> >> we can fix them.
> >>
> >> I have these settings:
> >>
> >>      LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-1
> >>      LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1
> >>
> >> First, Thunderbird displays the date as, for example:
> >>
> >>      03/ 6/16 ...
> >>
> >> The leading space on the day (6) looks weird.  I might even say it's
> >> simply wrong.  Zero-padding would better.  (/No/ padding would be best,
> >> but I don't think strftime supports that.)
> >>
> >> Second, date(1) no longer shows the day-of-week:
> >>
> >>      $ date
> >>      March 26, 2016 at 09:21:55 AM CDT
> >>
> >> For many years, I have been typing "date" to see the day-of-week (and
> >> other things).  I like the new human-friendly format, but I miss the
> >> day-of-week.
> >>
> >> Of course, I can fix these locally, but I wonder how we can fix them for
> >> everyone.  I see that the formats come from CLDR.  I also see that ume_at_
> >> restored the day-of-week for ja_JP in r292512.  Is this the best
> >> approach, or should we try to get them changed upstream (CLDR)?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your input,
> > I can hack cldr2def.pl to readd the week of day as it was before for 11.0 still
> > the best approach is to push the change upstream.
> >
> > I will have a look at the cldr2def.pl hack this week end.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bapt
> 
> LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
> 
> MM_CHARSET=UTF-8
> 
By adding the hack I mean to do it for all locales not cherry picking

Best regards,
Bapt

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