locale.5: document glibc conventions regarding days and week

Hi,

On 2014-05-28 18:03, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-05-28 17:30, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2014-05-28 14:54, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking at this patch more closely, there's a piece that seems to be broken.
>>>>>
>>>>> That sentence is garbled. Some words are missing, I think. Can you clarify?
>>>>
>>>> it was clumsy indeed, and also repetitive, I don't think it's needed at all
>>>> as the previous paragraph already explains the same thing.
>>>>
>>>> Please see an updated and rebased patch below.
>>>
>>> Best just to tell me what needs to be dropped from the preceding
>>> patch, since I've already merged and edited in a private branch.
>>
>> best to drop the sentence that was garbled. I'll double check it once it
>> appears in a public branch.
> 
> Done. And now the changes are published in Git.

thanks, looks good, I'd add this tiny change to be explicit rather than implicit.

From 4d8d8552aaf67f56278d1d8b90c88e531bfd111e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:11:55 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] locale.5: minor NOTES clarification

---
 man5/locale.5 |   16 ++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

On 05/28/2014 05:15 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2014-05-28 18:03, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 2014-05-28 17:30, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2014-05-28 14:54, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking at this patch more closely, there's a piece that seems to be broken.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That sentence is garbled. Some words are missing, I think. Can you clarify?
>>>>>
>>>>> it was clumsy indeed, and also repetitive, I don't think it's needed at all
>>>>> as the previous paragraph already explains the same thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please see an updated and rebased patch below.
>>>>
>>>> Best just to tell me what needs to be dropped from the preceding
>>>> patch, since I've already merged and edited in a private branch.
>>>
>>> best to drop the sentence that was garbled. I'll double check it once it
>>> appears in a public branch.
>>
>> Done. And now the changes are published in Git.
> 
> thanks, looks good, I'd add this tiny change to be explicit rather than implicit.

Applied, and pushed.

Cheers,

Michael


>>From 4d8d8552aaf67f56278d1d8b90c88e531bfd111e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:11:55 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] locale.5: minor NOTES clarification
> 
> ---
>  man5/locale.5 |   16 ++++++++++++----
>  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5
> index d762858..572833d 100644
> --- a/man5/locale.5
> +++ b/man5/locale.5
> @@ -1079,10 +1079,12 @@ Usual default path for locale definition files.
>  POSIX.2, ISO/IEC TR 14652.
>  .SH NOTES
>  The collective GNU C library community wisdom regarding
> +.IR abday ,
>  .IR day ,
>  .IR week ,
> +.IR first_weekday ,
>  and
> -.I first_weekday
> +.I first_workday
>  states at
>  https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Locales
>  the following:
> @@ -1090,13 +1092,17 @@ the following:
>  The value of the second
>  .I week
>  list item specifies the base of the
> +.I abday
> +and
>  .I day
> -list.
> +lists.
>  .IP *
>  .I first_weekday
>  specifies the offset of the first day-of-week in the
> +.I abday
> +and
>  .I day
> -list.
> +lists.
>  .IP *
>  For compatibility reasons, all glibc locales should set the value of the
>  second
> @@ -1104,8 +1110,10 @@ second
>  list item to
>  .B 19971130
>  (Sunday) and base the
> +.I abday
> +and
>  .I day
> -list appropriately, and set
> +lists appropriately, and set
>  .I first_weekday
>  to
>  .B 1
>