The LOCALE phrase is used to specify the culturally specific locale that is to be used for formatting date and time items.
When the LOCALE phrase is specified without literal-8, the date or time item’s format and separator is completely based on a locale. When the LOCALE phrase is specified with literal-8, literal-8 determines the format of the item, but the value used to replace any conversion specifier that is dependent on a locale for its exact representation (for example, %p) will be based on the locale.
Mnemonic-name-3 and mnemonic-name-4 must be locale mnemonic names. Locale mnemonic names are specified with the LOCALE clause of the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph see LOCALE Clause.