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

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:41 +0100, Christian Rose wrote:

> >  I'm even stunned to note that while I select Melbourne, AUSTRALIA as my
> >  time zone, local reports LC_TIME as en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> Actually, LC_TIME is just for formatting of time. Local time and time
> zone are completely irrelevant matters -- if you would be an American
> living in Australia, chances are that you would still want
> LC_TIME=en_ÙS (US time formatting of the local Australian time).

Strangely, as an Australian that lived in the US for three years, I used
(real) English (UK) and set the date to US along with measurements,
paper, dates and the like.


R.
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