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Re: libc-alpha Digest of: get.27331
- From: Stroller <stroller at stellar dot eclipse dot co dot uk>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Keld dot Simonsen at dkuug dot dk, pablo at mandrakesoft dot com,Petr Baudis <pasky at suse dot cz>,"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:17:16 +0100
- Subject: Re: libc-alpha Digest of: get.27331
- References: <1334228770.29913.ezmlm@sourceware.org>
On 12 April 2012, at 12:06, libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org wrote:
> …
> From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] cy_GB/en_GB: set am/pm in times
> Date: 12 April 2012 06:03:41 GMT+01:00
> To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Keld.Simonsen@dkuug.dk, pablo@mandrakesoft.com, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> The British people apparently use am/pm in time, so make it available to
>> them. While we're here, sync the date_fmt field from en_GB to cy_GB.
>> …
>
> The problem I see here is that both the UK Parliament and the UK
> Government website use `%A %e %B' (Wednesday 14 Apil) and never `%a %b
> %e' (Wed Apr 14). Even `The Sun' uses `%a %e %b', which is just a
> shortening of `%A %e %B'. In addition I see uses of `am' and 'pm'
> lowercase, and `%H.%M' not `%H:%M', on government documents (I'm
> willing to ignore these as government quirks).
>
> How was this format decided?
Uh, I *think* it's just the way we've sort of settled on, after using this format for hundreds of years.
Sorry for butting in, but it was I who reopened this bug a week ago.
Anecdata: I'm about as British as they come - English father, Scottish mother, my father's family can easily be traced back a couple of hundred years, the school I went to was founded with the involvement of the king in the 1552. I would *always* write the present time as 12:15pm. Give this statement as much or as little value as you wish.
Stroller.