[Bug 47866] comctl32:datetime: Fails in the Arabic locale

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47866

--- Comment #1 from Henri Verbeet  ---
(In reply to François Gouget from comment #0)
> The comctl32:datetime test fails in the Arabic locale:
>
> datetime.c:212: Test failed: String mismatch ("12 hh" vs "hh 12")
> datetime.c:796: Test failed: Expected 01/10/2019, got 2019/10/01
>
> https://test.winehq.org/data/tests/comctl32:datetime.html
>
> This failure has been happening for a long time in the fg-win7u64-1spie9-ar
> VM but now the TestBot has a Windows 10 VM where the issue can be reproduced
> (w1064v1809_ar).
>
> Since both VMs have different Windows versions and but fail in the same way
> in the same locale that seems to confirm that Arabic uses a different date
> format from what is expected.

Probably not the issue here, but as an aside and perhaps despite perceptions,
"Arabic" is not a locale any more than e.g. "English" or "French" are, and for
things like date and time formats, the distinction between e.g. fr_CA, fr_CH
and fr_FR actually matters.