------- Comment #6 from pcarlini at suse dot de 2006-03-15 17:22 ------- (In reply to comment #5) > > I mean, what evidence do you have that the en_GB locale data should be > > different? > > I see no reason why en_GB should want to show 2 year digits, while en_US and > en_DE should be happy with 4. 2 digits lead to confusion because it is a loss > of data.
In *principle*, I can well agree with you, but I'm afraid that reasoning is not sufficient. What about the "C" locale? It also uses 2 digits, and if it can, then, well, any other locale can. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26697