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"ISO format" could mean a lot of things, I'm happy this is not about the date format (ISO 8601)


That needs more use! It needs to be an easy to use locale on Linux, and KDE needs to respect the locale which version 6 still doesn't!


There is (used to be?) locale of "en_DK" (or English language for Denmark) that combined English month/day names with ISO8601 dates.

Maybe there needs to be an "en_ISO" ("en_UN"?) locale that has:

1. Currency of "$"

2. Numbers with decimal point as "." and group separator as "," and leading zero on (absolute) values between 0 and 1

3. Day names of Monday->Sunday and the equivalent abbreviations

4. Month names of January->December and the equivalent abbreviations

5. Times in 24 hour HH:mm:ss format

6. Dates in ISO8601 yyyy-MM-dd format.

7. Timestamps in "pure" ISO so yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss[.ssss] and with a "Z" or ±HH[:mm] for timezone adjustments.


8. DIN A4 paper size

9. Metric units where possible




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