Gregorian Date & Time Formats of en-HK

[Mark Davis ☕️]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Franklin Tse <franklinwhale at hotmail.com>wrote:

> I am writing to propose some changes to the "Approved" Gregorian date and
> time formats in the English (Hong Kong SAR) [en-HK] locale:
>
> 1. Short Date Format
>
> Currently, the approved short date format is "d/M/yy", which has 2-digit
> year format. However, 2-digit year format is not common in Hong Kong after
> Year 2000. We use 4-digit year instead. Therefore, I suggest that be
> changed to "d/M/y".
>
> 2. Comma between Year and English Month
>
> Currently, the approved values of medium, long and full date formats have
> a comma between Year (Y) and the English month (MMM/MMMM). This is not
> common in Hong Kong. We simply use "d MMM y" or "d MMMM y". I suggest those
> values be changed too.
>
> 3. Flexible Date Formats and Intervals Date Formats
>
> I suggest that the values in the flexible date formats and intervals date
> formats be modified to match with the changes in #1 and #2.
>
> I have already added the values to the Survey Tool at
> http://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps/v#/en_HK/Gregorian/22b38b49476d5bfd and
> hope that people in Hong Kong or familiar with the locale can help to vote
> for the changes.
>

Best to put requests like this into the forum in the Survey tool, rather
than on this mailing list.​ You only want to do them here if you don't get
responses on the forum.



Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

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