[Bug localedata/4789] incorrect abmon in polish locales

["belegdol at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From belegdol at gmail dot com  2007-08-26 13:53 -------
(In reply to comment #102)
> (In reply to comment #100)
> > Vide 02032007: is it British? Or American? Is it 2nd March, or February 2nd?
> 
> Poles aren't so divided in case of date format as anglophones are.
> 
Luckily we are not. The endianess of our date goes in par with the Brits, it
looks like the Europeans just stick together.
My point is, that by changing the abdate to arabic numerals we will only
introduce additional confusion. The date 02.03.2007 is perfectly unambiguous in
written texts where everything sticks to Polish rules. In IT, however, where the
large part of the engineers are American, and can unintentionally force the
endianess of the date, it will only lead to confusion. This has been illustrated
by the scrollkeeper log posted above.
I am not saying it is wrong, in my opinion it is just not the optimal way of
handling the month abbreviation.

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