[Bug 214730] Re: Incorrect date format in en_CA.utf8 locale

[Jean-Sebastien Dominique]

Several years later, the en_CA package still shows date as %d/%m/%y

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS"

$ LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 locale d_fmt
%d/%m/%y


Was there a regression?

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Title:
  Incorrect date format in en_CA.utf8 locale

Status in GLibC:
  Fix Released
Status in langpack-locales package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The date format in /usr/lib/locale/en_CA.utf8/LC_TIME specifies the
  date format as "%d/%m/%y". (This is also the case if you run the
  command 'locale LC_TIME' with your locale set to en_CA.utf8.) However,
  it should be "%y-%m-%d". This is the standard date format in Canada
  (as specified by the Canadian Standards Association in CSA
  Z234.5:1989, which adopts the ISO 8601 standard). I noticed this in
  Ubuntu 7.10.

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