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Re: [PATCH] cy_GB/en_GB: set am/pm in times
On 12 Apr 2012, Roland McGrath uttered the following:
> While a person's testimony about his heritage is edifying, it's not
> actually relevant to locale policies. The locale definitions don't
> use formats that some hackers who are natives of the locality prefer,
> no matter how reasonable--nor how popular--those preferences may be.
> They use the formats officially specified by country governmental
> standards and the like. Anecdotes about common usage are not apropos.
> What we need to see are citations of official standards.
Well, I'm not willing to spend Â122 on BS ISO 80000-3:2007 to find out
(assuming that's even the right standard, I have no idea). It seems very
strange to me that the experiences of native residents in domains in
which everyone has experience (like date/time formats) are considered
less appropriate than the contents of extremely expensive standards that
essentially nobody reads, but so be it. If the appropriate standard
specifies nonsense far from common usage (which is more than slightly
plausible, given my past experience with BSI standards), I guess the
distros will fix things up post facto, as they have up till now.
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