Bug 471085

Summary:	Date Format for de_DE.UTF8 should follow the German Standard DIN 5008:2020-03
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Don Curtis <bugrprt21882>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	fella, pglpm
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Don Curtis 2023-06-15 16:47:18 UTC

SUMMARY
The German Standard DIN 5008:2020-03 is perfectly clear:

* German systems shall display the date in the ISO 8601 format - YYYY-MM-DD

An exception is allowed only for correspondence within the German borders:
For historical reasons, the date format DD.MM.YYYY is allowed for correspondence within the German borders.

REQUEST:

Please the Date/Time format for Germany - de_DE.UTF8 to conform with the German Standard DIN 5008:2020-03.

Comment 1 Tobias Fella 2023-06-16 09:19:35 UTC

DD.MM.YYYY is significantly more common in germany than YYYY-MM-DD and we don't have to adhere to standards.

If you want a different date format on your machine, you can change it locally.

Comment 2 Don Curtis 2023-06-16 13:47:46 UTC

Please note that, the openSUSE Forum discussion "Locale-gen not found" is discussing this issue.
<https://forums.opensuse.org/t/locale-gen-not-found/166811>

Comment 3 Luca 2023-06-17 06:25:28 UTC

(In reply to Tobias Fella from comment #1)
> DD.MM.YYYY is significantly more common in germany than YYYY-MM-DD and we

Verifiable statistics, please. Otherwise I can just say the exact opposite.