Hi, On 2014-05-28 14:54, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > Looking at this patch more closely, there's a piece that seems to be broken. > > That sentence is garbled. Some words are missing, I think. Can you clarify? it was clumsy indeed, and also repetitive, I don't think it's needed at all as the previous paragraph already explains the same thing. Please see an updated and rebased patch below. >From 19a2e938158ffb94b0265968c6213a16b5179985 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 17:18:15 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] locale.5: document glibc conventions regarding days and week Based on existing practice and glibc community wiki page at https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Locales --- man5/locale.5 | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5 index 6f0538a..754a4e0 100644 --- a/man5/locale.5 +++ b/man5/locale.5 @@ -975,6 +975,7 @@ The list starts with the first day of the week as specified by .I week (Sunday by default). +See NOTES. .TP .I day followed by a list of names of the days of the week. @@ -982,6 +983,7 @@ The list starts with the first day of the week as specified by .I week (Sunday by default). +See NOTES. .TP .I abmon followed by a list of abbreviated month names. @@ -1020,16 +1022,7 @@ Regarding the start of the week, shall be used for Sunday and .B 19971201 shall be used for Monday. -Thus, countries using -.B 19971130 -should have local Sunday name as the first day in the -.I day -list, -while countries using -.B 19971201 -should have Monday translation as the first item in the -.I day -list. +See NOTES. .TP .IR first_weekday " (since glibc 2.2)" followed by the number of the first day from the @@ -1041,6 +1034,7 @@ corresponds to either Sunday or Monday depending on the value of the second .I week list item. +See NOTES. .TP .IR first_workday " (since glibc 2.2)" followed by the number of the first working day from the @@ -1048,6 +1042,7 @@ followed by the number of the first working day from the list. The default value is .BR 2 . +See NOTES. .TP .I cal_direction .\" from localedata/locales/uk_UA @@ -1080,6 +1075,50 @@ Usual default locale archive location. .TP .I /usr/share/i18n/locales Usual default path for locale definition files. +.SH NOTES +The collective GNU C library community wisdom regarding +.IR abday , +.IR day , +.IR week , +.IR first_weekday , +and +.I first_workday +states at +https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Locales +the following: +.PP +The value of the second +.I week +list item specifies the base of the +.I abday +and +.I day +lists. +.PP +.I first_weekday +specifies the offset of the first day-of-week in the +.I abday +and +.I day +lists. +.PP +For compatibility reasons, all glibc locales should set the value of the +second +.I week +list item to +.B 19971130 +(Sunday) and base the +.I abday +and +.I day +lists appropriately, and set +.I first_weekday +to +.B 1 +or +.BR 2 , +depending on whether the week actually starts on Sunday or Monday +for the locale. .SH CONFORMING TO POSIX.2, ISO/IEC TR 14652. .SH BUGS -- 1.7.1 Thanks, -- Marko Myllynen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
