Re: [PATCH] en_US: define date_fmt (bug 24046)

[Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>]

2.01.2019 18:41 Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-12-31 19:16, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> > 31.12.2018 12:07 Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> > > 
> [...]
> By looking at the difference between d_t_fmt and date_fmt in the locales
> having both, it seems to me that the later has been added to display the
> full date and time, including the timezone.

I have the same impression looking at the C locale.

> Indeed for countries that
> only span a single timezone, it is usually not displayed.

I didn't think about it as a matter of whether a country spans one or
multiple time zones.  I think that if you are asking about the current
time of your desktop computer then it is in the same time zone as you
no matter how large is your country.  OTOH, if you are asking about the
current time of a remote computer it is not helpful that your country
has only one time zone because the computer may be abroad.  But my
reasoning may be wrong, feel free to disagree.

> [...]
> > around the world.  I did not yet have time to file a bug report and/or
> > fix it, anybody feel free to do it.
> 
> I have just opened BZ 24054 about that.

Thank you.

> [...]
> Given we are now in freeze period and given the patch has been posted
> only recently in a period with many people away from their computer, I
> think it's better to wait a bit to give the chance for other people to
> comment. After all it has been like that for more than 18 years, so we
> can wait a few weeks more. I'll repost this patch once glibc 2.29 has
> been released.

Fair enough.

Regards,

Rafal