Bug 242296

I think the Fedora should patch the glibc because the upstream does not want to
do it.
File to patching: <path_to_sourcedir>/localedata/locales/pl_PL (after
installation: /usr/share/i18n/locales/pl_PL ).

Reasons:
- at now the abmon is archaic mothod of abbreviation
- there are problems with applications (e.g. calendar in evolution)
- now it is useless and not user-friendly
The polish experts opinion says that the previous method of abreviating days and
months IS correct in computer industry.

I think something like Wto, 25 Sie 2007 looks a bit better. 

We now have 3 different groups, each pushing a different format.
For %b wrz vs. IX vs. 9, and then various different layouts of D_T_FMT, D_FMT
and T_FMT.
If you want this changed, can you (or ask somebody else to) please organize an
internet poll among Polish Linux users, which states all the various proposed
changes and let people choose from them, then invite people in various LUGs,
distros, those commenting in the various bugzilla bugs about this, etc.

I organize poll http://karlik.nonlogic.org/blog/wpisy/ogolne/daty-w-glibc-sonda .

There has not been a lot of interest about poll, but I think I can sum it up.
In conclusion of poll about day abbs:
# pon, wto, śro, czw, pią, sob, nie (47%, 425 Votes)
# Pn, Wt, Śr, Cz, Pt, So, Nd, (27%, 249 Votes)
# pn., wt., śr., czw., pt., sob., ndz. (10%, 95 Votes)
# PN,WT,SR,CZW,PT,SO,ND (5%, 48 Votes)
# pon., wto., śro., czw., pią., sob., nie. (4%, 38 Votes)
# Po,Wt,Śr,Czw,Pt,So,N (3%, 25 Votes)
# inna (podaj w komentarzu) (2%, 18 Votes) <= in comments are e.g. "pn, wt, śr,
cz, pt, so, nd"
# pon., wt., śr., czw., piąt., sob., niedz. (1%, 11 Votes)
Well... in the glibc should be these abbreviations:
nie
pon
wto
śro
czw
pią
sob

Abbreviations of months:
# trzy pierwsze litery (sty,lut,mar,kwi,maj,cze,lip,sie,wrz,paź,lis,gru) (81%,
519 Votes)
# rzymskie liczby (I,II,III,IV,V,VI,VII,VIII,IX,X,XI,XII) (17%, 108 Votes)
# inna zgodna z normami (podaj w komentarzu) (3%, 17 Votes)
So in the glibc should be these abbreviations:
sty
lut
mar
kwi
maj
cze
lip
sie
wrz
paź
lis
gru

The D_FMT:
# liczbowa arabska z uzupełniającym zerem (01,02…12), %d.%m.%Y, np. 01.01.1970
(62%, 528 Votes)
# z użyciem skrótów miesięcy, %d %b %Y, np. 01 I 1970, 01 sty 1970 (36%, 303 Votes)
# inna (podaj w komentarzu) (3%, 22 Votes) <= most of these votes are for iso-8601
I did not organize more polls (e.g. for D_T_FMT). I think good idea is to not
change D_T_FMT (IMHO there should be change only abbs not *FMT, but I made a
poll as you wish).

I've made changes upstream in cvs.

I think I can close the bug. :)

Sorry for digging up a bug closed almost 2 months ago, but I have just installed
F8 (earlier had FC6) and noticed that "locale's date representation" (date +%x)
had been changed.
In previous versions there was %Y-%m-%d (e.g. 2007-12-20), now %d.%m.%Y
(20.12.2007). At it was detailed in already mentioned bug:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3156#11
in Poland accepted standard is PN-EN 28601:2002 (aka ISO_8601).
http://www.pkn.pl/index.php?a=show&m=katalog&id=463318&page=1 (Polish Committee
for Standarization)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
which defines date as 2007-12-20.

Because there was no question about that date format in Karol's poll (it appears 
only in the first question about fixed number of digits with leading zeros vs.
that with months abbreviation (like 01 I 1970, 01 sty 1970)) I suspect that it
could be changed accidentally in Fedora version and unnecessary breaks standard.

It was not included, since it is an international format that can be obtained
easily. There are comments about that in one of the sourceware bugs iirc.