svn commit: r194231 - head/share/timedef

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> Author: edwin
> Date: Mon Jun 15 02:17:10 2009
> New Revision: 194231
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/194231
>
> Log:
>  Undo the change in r193688 as suggested in conf/72076.
>
>  People on IRC and the -doc mailinglist (June 2009) showed that this
>  new format wasn't used or known widely enough to justify the change.

grml; it is but people have been ignorant for ages now, still using DIN 1355;
not sure we want to encourage this anymore:(

What follows is from the top of my head:

ISO8601 - from 198x[x=8|9]/1991
EN28601 - from 1992
DIN5008 - from 2001

In contrast to that DIN1355 imho was fomm 194x, changed at least 1975
and I think they did something mid-90s after EN28601 was out.

Imho since 2005 or 2006 ISO8601 is authoritative.


> Modified:
>  head/share/timedef/de_DE.ISO8859-1.src
>  head/share/timedef/de_DE.UTF-8.src
>
> Modified: head/share/timedef/de_DE.ISO8859-1.src
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/share/timedef/de_DE.ISO8859-1.src	Mon Jun 15 01:09:19 2009	(r194230)
> +++ head/share/timedef/de_DE.ISO8859-1.src	Mon Jun 15 02:17:10 2009	(r194231)
> @@ -59,7 +59,11 @@ Samstag
> #
> # x_fmt
> #
> -%Y-%m-%d
> +# Note about the new DIN5008, ISO8601 and EN28601 format of %Y-%m-%d:
> +# A quick poll on IRC and the -doc mailinglist (June 2009) showed that
> +# this format was not used often enough to push this change through.
> +#
> +%d.%m.%Y
> #
> # c_fmt
> #
>
> Modified: head/share/timedef/de_DE.UTF-8.src
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/share/timedef/de_DE.UTF-8.src	Mon Jun 15 01:09:19 2009	(r194230)
> +++ head/share/timedef/de_DE.UTF-8.src	Mon Jun 15 02:17:10 2009	(r194231)
> @@ -59,7 +59,11 @@ Samstag
> #
> # x_fmt
> #
> -%Y-%m-%d
> +# Note about the new DIN5008, ISO8601 and EN28601 format of %Y-%m-%d:
> +# A quick poll on IRC and the -doc mailinglist (June 2009) showed that
> +# this format was not used often enough to push this change through.
> +#
> +%d.%m.%Y
> #
> # c_fmt
> #
>

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                      The greatest risk is not taking one.