en_GB.xml Gregorian Date Formats

[Steven R. Loomis via CLDR-Users]

George,
> It would be nice if the en_GB.xml file referenced it's parent

I appreciate the idea, however, the XML files are not designed to be looked
at in isolation. That's why we put this notice at the top:

" CLDR data files are interpreted according to the LDML specification (
http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/) "

Is there a better way to word this?

Please also see the Implementer's guide and FAQ at
https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr-implementers-guide/  - if you think
this would be a good FAQ can you open an issue, or better yet a pull
request there?


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:57 PM, George S. via CLDR-Users <
cldr-users at unicode.org> wrote:

> Thanks for responding. I knew I'd gone down this road before. Drat.
>
> I'll make the same comment I made three years ago:
>
> It would be nice if the en_GB.xml file referenced it's parent so that
> mortals might have some idea of where to look. Having the relationship
> squirreled away in a file in another directory with a non-obvious name
> isn't very handy.
>
>
>
> On 3/14/2018 2:38 PM, Peter Edberg wrote:
>
> en_GB inherits from en_001, not from en.
>
> - Peter E
>
> On Mar 14, 2018, at 12:48 PM, George S. via CLDR-Users <
> cldr-users at unicode.org> wrote:
>
> I'm looking at the file comm/main/en_GB.xml and I'm really confused. I'm
> looking at the Gregorian calendar section, and there's no
>
> dateFormats / dateFormatLength=short
>
> the value in en.xml is
>
> M/d/yy
>
> If I look at en_AU.xml there is an entry with a value of "d/M/yy".
>
> Similarly, en_IE.xml there is no short dateFormatLength value.
>
> Can anyone help me understand how this all works? I'm using a library that
> generates it's localization files from LDML, and it's coming up with a lot
> of wrong answers. Before I go to them, I'd like to understand why things
> are formatted in this way.
>
>
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