Ubuntu
langpack-locales package

Incorrect delimiter on pt_BR

Bug #1101134 reported by Thaynã Moretti
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GLibC
Fix Released
Medium
langpack-locales (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Gunnar Hjalmarsson

Bug Description

The delimiter is incorrect on pt_BR locale.

$ export LANG=pt_BR
$ date +%x
17-01-2013

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country), the delimiter are slashes, and not hyphens.

-- version info --
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

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Thaynã Moretti (izn)
description: updated
Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
tags: added: patch
Changed in langpack-locales (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → In Progress
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Thanks Gunnar! Uploaded.

Changed in langpack-locales (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package langpack-locales - 2.13+git20120306-17

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langpack-locales (2.13+git20120306-17) utopic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/ubuntu-pt_BR-d_fmt.patch:
    Changed d_fmt delimiter from - to / (LP: #1101134).
  * debian/patches/ubuntu-tr_TR-currency_symbol.patch:
    Changed the currency symbol from YTL to TL (LP: #1242416).
  * debian/patches/ubuntu-lv_LV-currency.patch:
    Changed to currency EUR/€ (LP: #1264551).
 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:11:00 +0200

Changed in langpack-locales (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in glibc:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Changed in glibc:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Thaynã Moretti (izn) wrote :

I think we got a new "bug".

$ export LANG=pt_BR
$ date +%x
04/13/18

Brazil's default: 13/04/18

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Nope. pt_BR refers to the Brazilian latin1 locale, and if that has not been generated (it hasn't usually), the system falls back to the C locale.

$ LC_TIME=C date +%x
04/14/18
$ LC_TIME=pt_BR.UTF-8 date +%x
14/04/2018

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