Comments on: Dates, etc. http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/2009/09/03/dates-etc/ babblings! Thu, 23 May 2013 11:27:22 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Caolan http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/2009/09/03/dates-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-138307 Caolan Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:42:36 +0000 http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/?p=311#comment-138307 Turns out that icu 4.2 and CLDR 1.7 are kept in sync. Just that icu ignores <a href="http://cldr.unicode.org/index/process" rel="nofollow">unconfirmed</a> fields and uses defaults in that case, i.e. 2009/09/03 is an unconfirmed date format for Afrikaans, so icu ignores it and falls back to the ISO standard format. Turns out that icu 4.2 and CLDR 1.7 are kept in sync. Just that icu ignores unconfirmed fields and uses defaults in that case, i.e. 2009/09/03 is an unconfirmed date format for Afrikaans, so icu ignores it and falls back to the ISO standard format.

]]> By: Dwayne Bailey http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/2009/09/03/dates-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-138286 Dwayne Bailey Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:34:16 +0000 http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/?p=311#comment-138286 Those poor kids with surnames like Abbot, they get picked on first for English orals! So with a language like Afrikaans I get picked on (I maintain a lot of these locales). I'm really glad you've done this. When we did our initial CLDR to OOo alignment it exposed a number of bugs that we were able to correct. So exercises like this that expose inconsistencies, while they might be tedious to execute, are really important to get locale data in good shape. Many thanks! It seems that the whole date thing needs a nice review and it looks like I'll be doing that for all _ZA languages. Those poor kids with surnames like Abbot, they get picked on first for English orals! So with a language like Afrikaans I get picked on (I maintain a lot of these locales).

I’m really glad you’ve done this. When we did our initial CLDR to OOo alignment it exposed a number of bugs that we were able to correct. So exercises like this that expose inconsistencies, while they might be tedious to execute, are really important to get locale data in good shape. Many thanks!

It seems that the whole date thing needs a nice review and it looks like I’ll be doing that for all _ZA languages.

]]> By: Caolan http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/2009/09/03/dates-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-138276 Caolan Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:08:29 +0000 http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/?p=311#comment-138276 <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/goglobal/default.mspx?submitted=0436&OS=Windows%20Vista" rel="nofollow">MS</a> has Afrikaans default short date format as the same as CLDR 1.7, i.e. 2009/09/03 Front page of Beeld is using <a href="http://www.beeld.com/Content/" rel="nofollow">03-09-2009</a> South African Tax Forms are using <a href="http://www.sars.gov.za/home.asp?pid=4153&tid=60&s=forms&show=966" rel="nofollow">2009-09-03</a> MS has Afrikaans default short date format as the same as CLDR 1.7, i.e. 2009/09/03

Front page of Beeld is using 03-09-2009

South African Tax Forms are using 2009-09-03

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