standards/72076: [patch] German locales use old %d.%m.%y date format instead of newer ISO date

Peter Wullinger some-mail-drop at gmx.net
Sat Sep 25 01:40:26 PDT 2004


>Number:         72076
>Category:       standards
>Synopsis:       [patch] German locales use old %d.%m.%y date format instead of newer ISO date
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-standards
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep 25 08:40:25 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Wullinger
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
-
>Environment:
	Any FreeBSD System with locale support.

>Description:
	DIN 5008 (German norm for text processing) defines the old date
	format (%d.%m.%Y) to be obsolete and to be used only, if unambigous.
	In international communications the new format (%Y-%m-%d) is now
	required and FreeBSD should respect this.

	References:
	- DIN 5008
	- EN 28 601
	- ISO 8601

	Thanks to Oliver Lietz for bringing this to my attention.

>How-To-Repeat:
	% export LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
	% date +%x
	or 
	% export LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO8859-1
	% date +%x
>Fix:

Apply the following patch and "make && make install" in /usr/share/timedef

--- /usr/src/share/timedef/de_DE.UTF-8.src.orig	Sat Sep 25 09:16:23 2004
+++ /usr/src/share/timedef/de_DE.UTF-8.src	Sat Sep 25 09:11:59 2004
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 #
 # x_fmt
 #
-%d.%m.%Y
+%Y-%m-%d
 #
 # c_fmt
 #
--- /usr/src/share/timedef/de_DE.ISO8859-1.src.orig	Sat Sep 25 09:16:23 2004
+++ /usr/src/share/timedef/de_DE.ISO8859-1.src	Sat Sep 25 09:11:53 2004
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 #
 # x_fmt
 #
-%d.%m.%Y
+%Y-%m-%d
 #
 # c_fmt
 #

Port patch for misc/utf8locale pending. 
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