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

[Daniel O'Callaghan]

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

From: Daniel O'Callaghan <danny at clari.net.au>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/146908: Afrikaans LC_TIME is incorrect (symlink to en_US)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 09:10:02 +1000

 John,
 > 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.
 
 I've simply translated the glibc af_ZA LC_TIME.  I'm not actually South
 African myself.  I was just puzzled at the symlink to en_US which 
 obviously does not provide Afrikaans day/month names, and provides a 
 date format which is MM/DD which is not used at all in ZA.
 
 See
 http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/localedata/locales/af_ZA?rev=1.14&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=glibc
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country does
 report ZA as officially using ISO 8601.
 
 Since you *are* from South Africa, I defer to your local knowledge.
 You might like to confer with dwayne at translate.org.za who appears to 
 maintain the glibc af_ZA locale (at least he did in 2005)
 
 If ZA officially uses ISO 8601, then perhaps en_ZA/LC_TIME should also 
 be created to reflect that.  I notice that en_ZA is not present in 
 FreeBSD, and none of the other en_*/LC_TIME files use %Y-%m-%d as x_fmt
 
 > As a side issue, is the locale file format documented somewhere? I could
 > not find it quickly.
 
 LC_TIME format is defined in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdtime/timelocal.h as
 struct lc_time_T {
        const char      *mon[12];
        const char      *month[12];
        const char      *wday[7];
        const char      *weekday[7];
        const char      *X_fmt;
        const char      *x_fmt;
        const char      *c_fmt;
        const char      *am;
        const char      *pm;
        const char      *date_fmt;
        const char      *alt_month[12];
        const char      *md_order;
        const char      *ampm_fmt;
 };
 
 Thanks very much,
 
 Danny