LDML data for en_IE

[George Sexton]

I'm looking at the LDML data for common/main/en_IE.xml.  In this file, 
in the gregorian section there is only a full date format entry.

As documented somewhat ironically in section 4 of Unicode Technical 
Standard #35 Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML), a lookup for 
dateFormatLength short should follow inheritance. Thus the value would 
come from en.xml, which would be:

<dateFormatLength  type="short">
	<dateFormat>
         	<pattern>M/d/yy</pattern>
	</dateFormat>
</dateFormatLength>


However examining the JSON file of cldr data, 
main/en-IE/ca-gregorian.js, it contains:

"short": "dd/MM/y"

I've also had a person who is a native of that country inform me that  
M/d/yy is not correct.

Can someone help me understand why the LDML data implicitly contains (to 
my understanding) an incorrect definition of the short date format for 
the en-IE locale?



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George Sexton
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