Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove redundant data for niu_NZ

[Mike FABIAN <mfabian at redhat dot com>]

AKHILESH KUMAR <akhilesh.k@samsung.com> wrote:

>> > -week 7;19971130;1
>>> +copy "niu_NU"
>> >  END LC_TIME
>> 
>> niu_NU contains:
>>
> week 7;19971130;1
>> first_weekday 2
>>
>> Is “first_weekday 2” appropriate for NZ?
>   
>   yes  
>   https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?country=30
>   
>> Is it even right for NU? Isn’t this a contradiction to
>>“week 7;19971130;1”?
> 
>   Looks "week" needs to change 
>   http://www.niueisland.com/calendar/?view=calendar&month=August-2017
>   
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Locales#LC_TIME says:
>>
>> > week DAYSINWEEK;WEEKSTARTDATE;MINWEEKLEN - DAYSINWEEK is usually 7;
>> > MINWEEKLEN is the minimal length of the first week in year (usually
>> > 4). WEEKSTARTDATE is most confusing - it should be some date that
>>> corresponds to the beginning of a week. It is typically either 19971130
>> (Sunday) or 19971201 (Monday), the former being used almost by all glibc
>> locales (see below).
>> 
>> first_weekday N - number of day in the week to be shown in the first
>> column of a calendar. Defaults to 1.

I missed the documentation just below the paragraph I quoted from 

>     https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Locales#LC_TIME
> 
>     The tricky thing is how to reconcile information from WEEKSTARTDATE
>     and first_weekday. PetrBaudis wrote some lenghty treatises about this on
>     libc-locales; we present the outcome and thus our de facto current
>     interpretation:
> 
>     WEEKSTARTDATE specifies the base of the abday and day lists
> 
>     first_weekday specifies the offset of the first day-of-week in the abday and day lists
> 
>     For compatibility reasons, all locales should set WEEKSTARTDATE on
>     19971130 (Sunday) and base the abday and day lists appropriately,
>     and set first_weekday 1 or 2 depending to whether their week
>     actually starts on Sunday or Monday.
> 
>     Thus, for example en_GB definition (English locale with week starting on Monday) is:
> 
>       week          7;19971130;4
>       first_weekday 2
>       first_workday 2
>       day           "Sunday;Monday;Tuesday;Wednesday;Thursday;Friday;Saturday"
>       abday         "Sun;Mon;Tue;Wed;Thu;Fri;Sat"

So it is correct to use 19971130 in “week” *always*. And all our
locales currently do that.

-- 
Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>