broken pl LC_TIME

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Tomasz Pala wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:25:50AM +0200, Adam Ryba wrote:
> > > >
> > > > XICIIVIM months are archaic in polish.
> > >
> > > http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-pl/2007-June/141423.html
> > 
> > IMHO using roman numerals is plain wrong. First and foremost it is not
> > compliant with polish standard PN-EN 28601:2002 and international
> > standard ISO 8601:2004.
> > 
> > Dictionary rules allow use of roman numerals, but it is not
> > obligatory. It just an option.
> 
> Exactly. There's absolutely no reason to use roman numbers. The most
> common and proper way is [day].mm.yyyy (day<10 with or without leading

Numeric mm is NOT month name _abbreviayion_.

I don't know whether it can be left undefined (en will be used?).

> zero, two decimal month and four decimal year). However these dictionary
> rules don't meet PN either.
> I don't know what was the patch author intention, but thanks god he

Intention is clearly explained in bugzilla references.
IMO I/II/III is better than sty/lut/mar.
But maybe yhey all should have trailing/leading spaces to keep fixed length.

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