Re: RFE: Modification to the Timezone Modifier

[Marko Myllynen]

Hi,

On 2013-09-11 15:24, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> 
> the national recommendations in Finland for Finnish concerning date
> strings containing timezone state that they should use format like
> "UTC+3" or "UTC+5.30".
> 
> I've filed a RFE about glibc's strftime at
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12747 in order to be able
> to update the Finnish locale according to the recommendations.
> 
> Given that GNU date's "UTC%:::z" produces almost what we're looking for
> full hours ("UTC+03" vs "UTC+3") I'm wondering would it be possible to
> add support for GNU date to express timezone in a way to match the
> aforementioned recommendations?
> 
> This might hopefully help in possible future discussions with Austin
> Group which, if leading to positive results, could then in turn used as
> basis for glibc strftime changes which would then, finally, allow
> changing the Finnish locale as described above.

since there were no comments about this I looked at the sources myself
and noticed that GNU date (coreutils/src/date.c) uses in fact gnulib
(gnulib/lib/strftime.c) which in turn states that the canonical copy of
the file strftime.c is maintained with the GNU C Library.

This seems a bit of the chicken and the egg problem to me so I'm not
sure how to proceed here. Of course, if you think this is something that
will not be considered at least today it'd be also helpful to know.

Thanks,

-- 
Marko Myllynen