misc/146908: Afrikaans LC_TIME is incorrect (symlink to en_US)

John Hay jhay at meraka.org.za
Mon May 24 08:30:05 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR misc/146908; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Hay <jhay at meraka.org.za>
To: Daniel O'Callaghan <danny at clari.net.au>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/146908: Afrikaans LC_TIME is incorrect (symlink to en_US)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:22:24 +0200

 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 06:26:58AM +0000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         146908
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       Afrikaans LC_TIME is incorrect (symlink to en_US)
 ...
 > LC_TIME files /usr/share/locale/af_ZA.* are incorrectly symlinked to en_US.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > Substitute attached file as af_ZA.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME and symlink with af_ZA.IS8859-15/LC_TIME and af_ZA.UTF-8/LC_TIME
 > 
 > Patch attached with submission follows:
 > 
 > Jan
 > Feb
 > Mrt
 > Apr
 > Mei
 > Jun
 > Jul
 > Aug
 > Sep
 > Okt
 > Nov
 > Des
 > Januarie
 > Februarie
 > Maart
 > April
 > Mei
 > Junie
 > Julie
 > Augustus
 > September
 > Oktober
 > November
 > Desember
 > So
 > Ma
 > Di
 > Wo
 > Do
 > Vr
 > Sa
 > Sondag
 > Maandag
 > Dinsdag
 > Woensdag
 > Donderdag
 > Vrydag
 > Saterdag
 > %H:%M:%S
 > %d/%m/%Y
 
 Should the date not be: %Y-%m-%d?
 South Africa has adopted ISO 8601 years ago, and while some people still
 use various styles, this is the official one.
 
 As a side issue, is the locale file format documented somewhere? I could
 not find it quickly?
 
 John
 -- 
 John Hay -- jhay at meraka.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org


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