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date: forgot the full day of the month name

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 76316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76316: date: forgot the full day of the month name
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:14:13 -0800

> $ man date|grep "locale's full"
>        %A     locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
>        %B     locale's full month name (e.g., January)
> $ LC_ALL=zh_TW.UTF-8 date +%A%B
> 週日二月
> OK that's great. But you forgot
>               locale's full day of the month name
> E.g., I'll add it on the back for 2/2
> 週日二月二日
> The reason is due to English only having one form: 2, but other
> languages might have two.

Sorry, I don't understand the bug report. Are you asking for a new 
feature, or are you saying that currently GNU 'date' outputs incorrect 
strings for %A and/or %B? If the former, what new feature exactly? And 
if the latter, what is the correct output?

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