Subject: bug#22183: date returns incorrect string for Wednesday in Marathi locale

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:57:59 +0000

tag 22183 notabug
close 22183
stop

On 16/12/15 06:42, Richard J. Cotton wrote:
> To reproduce:
> 
> LANG="mr_IN.utf8" date -d 'Wednesday' +%A
> 
> I see the value
> मंगळवार
> 
> This is the Marathi equivalent of Tuesday.  LANG="mr_IN.utf8" date -d 'Wednesday' +%A returns the same string.  Other Marathi weekdays are correct.

I see Tue/Wed different here (Fedora 23).
In any case this is not a coreutils issue
as those strings come from the locale database:

$ locale day
Sunday;Monday;Tuesday;Wednesday;Thursday;Friday;Saturday
$ LANG="mr_IN.utf8" locale day
रविवार;सोमवार;मंगळवार;बुधवार;गुरुवार;शुक्रवार;शनिवार

thanks,
Pádraig