Swiss date format in glibc (was: [m17n] Simplified Chinese in SuSE)

Marc Waeckerlin <[email protected]> :

> Am Dienstag, 17. Mai 2005 17.46 schrieb Mike FABIAN 
>> mfabian@magellan:~$ LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 date
>> Die Mai 17 17:41:15 CEST 2005
>> mfabian@magellan:~$ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 date
>> Di Mai 17 17:41:25 CEST 2005
>> mfabian@magellan:~$
>>
>> This may be an error in glibc of course, if you think it
>> is you may file a bug in the glibc bugzilla.
>
> Definitively wrong. In Switzerland (and I suppose in Germany 
> too), day is always before month and time is separated with 
> a single dot. KDE does it right, it declares time as: 
> "SS.MM:SEKSEK" and date as: "WOCHENTAG, tT. MONAT JJJJ" and 
> short date as: "tT mM. JJ" (that's wrong AFAIK, day is 
> always followed by a dot). So, with de_CH, your example 
> should probably render to:
>   Dienstag, 17. Mai 2005 17.41:15

I recently reported an error in the output of the date command
in simplified Chinese locale, see

    http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=811

If you are sure that the Swiss time format in glibc is wrong,
it is probably a good idea to file a similar bugreport.

If you read the above bugreport you can easily make a similar
patch to change the time format in a Swiss locale.

-- 
Mike FABIAN   <[email protected]>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian



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