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date: forgot the full day of the month name

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Message #19 received at 76316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 76316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: date: forgot the full day of the month name
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:24:31 +0800

Indeed there is also "The twenty-second of July" format.

But for Chinese it's like the user can get
Seventh month,
but not seventh day,
all due to there being %A and %B, only down to the n

Anyway isn't it odd that there are only
     locale’s abbreviated weekday name (e.g., ‘Sun’)
     locale’s full weekday name, variable length (e.g., ‘Sunday’)
     locale’s abbreviated month name (e.g., ‘Jan’)
     locale’s full month name, variable length (e.g., ‘January’)
but no (1-31) day pairs?

>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:
PE> On 2025-02-16 00:09, Dan Jacobson wrote:
PE> Sorry, I don't understand the bug report. Are you asking for a new
PE> feature, or are you saying that currently GNU 'date' outputs incorrect
PE> strings for %A and/or %B? If the former, what new feature exactly? And
>> Yes the former.

PE> OK, marking this as a wishlist item then.

PE> We have similar problems in English too. There's no date format that
PE> outputs "Sunday, the 16th of February", or "II.16" or a bunch of other
PE> English-language dates. I imagine there are similar problems in nearly
PE> every language that "date" claims to support.

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