Anaconda needs new locale thinking. (was Re: How important are ISO standards to Fedora?)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le jeudi 14 février 2008 à 23:30 +0100, Linus Walleij a écrit :
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 
> > Timezone and locale are two different things.
> > LC_TIME only affects the way dates are displayed.
> 
> True, but if you choose "English (US)" as install language, then 
> clicked "Stockholm" for time zone, what would you argue is the best locale 
> setting for LC_TIME?
> 
> It is not really certain that just because you have an English (US) 
> Fedora, you want dates as mm/dd/yyyy. In fact I would argue, that if TZ is 
> set to Stockholm meredian, the user is very unlikely to understand what 
> date 14/02/2008 is, since we Swedes always write 2008-02-14, and the 
> user will more likely be a Swede 

According to glibc locale logic, you're all Danes (see en_dk locale)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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