https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982

--- Comment #305 from Borden <[email protected]> ---
My C's pretty rusty, but for all the talk of "Don't blame us, we're just using
Qt's locale library," the upstream documentation doesn't corrobortae that
excuse: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qlocale.html . The "Public Types" all accept
masks - as they should - not country codes.

The glibc concept of locales is pretty arbitrary and, frankly, wrong. It should
die and be put to a hastened death with extreme prejudice. Notwithstanding ISO,
I'm not aware of any country in the world (except for maybe the very insecure
ones like North Korea) which state, "Shalt thou print the date in dd-mmm-yyyy.
No more. No less. dd-mmm-yyyy shalt be the date format thou shalt use, and the
format of the date shalt be dd-mmm-yyyy. dd-mmmm-yyyy shalt thou not write, nor
either write thou write dd-mm-yy, excepting that thou then proceed to write
dd-mmm-yyyy. mm-dd-yy is right out...."

So why don't we use format masks like QLocale and normal people use?

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