[Bug 200079] [patch] Canada Uses ISO 8601 for Dates

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            Bug ID: 200079
           Summary: [patch] Canada Uses ISO 8601 for Dates
           Product: Base System
           Version: 10.1-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Keywords: patch
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: misc
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: freebsd-bugs at nanoman.ca
          Keywords: patch

Created attachment 156577
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=156577&action=edit
patch to add en_CA and en_FR LC_TIME files

Canada uses ISO 8601 for dates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Canada

http://xkcd.com/1179/

Currently, en_CA is using en_GB's LC_TIME, which doesn't adhere to ISO 8601. 
en_US doesn't adhere to ISO 8601 either, so en_CA will have to be a new
addition.  fr_FR has this same issue, so fr_CA will have to be added too.

I've attached a patch for /head/share/timedef/.  This patch adds the files
en_CA.ISO8859-1.src, fr_CA.ISO8859-1.src, and fr_CA.UTF-8.src, and modifies the
Makefile to reflect these changes.

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