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[Bug localedata/11630] Odd time separator in Swedish time format for sv_SE


------- Additional Comments From m4rh at stjernholm dot org  2010-05-25 14:10 -------
Figures there would be some "official" writing guidelines that odd format was
taken from.

English influence or not, ":" is defacto much more common in modern everyday
Swedish usage, which a survey of popular Swedish content such as the one I did
readily shows. The purpose of the locale is presumably to use formatting most
Swedes feel comfortable with, and in that perspective common/defacto/established
usage arguably carry more weight than some guideline document, in case of conflict.

A survey of popular usage can of course be done with much more care to avoid bad
measurements such as web sites with poor/sloppy language treatment, but I can
point out that three of them (aftonbladet.se, expressen.se, and dn.se)
correspond to big national news papers, which as such do pay attention to this
sort of thing.

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