Subject: Re: bug#19856: Bad month translation printed with date command in Greek locale

From: "Andries E. Brouwer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 10:52:26 +0100

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 03:56:25PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:

> It also looks like the POSIX wording is very specific on which
> of the two forms is genitive vs nominative

In general such words (like genitive) are not appropriate.
Different languages have different systems of flection,
and the situation is far too complicated for POSIX to describe.

In many languages the day number is an ordinal number, not a cardinal number.
Even for English I don't know whether there is a convenient way
to generate April 1st, April 2nd. Or for French 1er avril, 2 avril.

Andries