broken pl LC_TIME

[Tomasz Pala]

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
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
didn't use MCMLXXXVIII years...

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