GNU bug report logs - #22183
date returns incorrect string for Wednesday in Marathi locale

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Richard J. Cotton" <rjc2003 <at> qatar-med.cornell.edu>

Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 22183 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: "Richard J. Cotton" <rjc2003 <at> qatar-med.cornell.edu>, 22183 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22183: date returns incorrect string for Wednesday in Marathi
 locale
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
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