[Bug libc/809] New: Full month names in languages with declension are not usful for creation of dates

[Bug libc/809] New: Full month names in languages with declension are not usful for creation of dates

[slimak at slimak dot info]

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In Polish full date for today would be written

        30 dzieñ marca roku 2005 (30 day of march of year 2005)

which is usually shortend to

        30 marca 2005

but we also write

        teraz jest marzec (it is march now).

Marzec is nominative of march, and marca is genitive. These to cases are used most
often. Similar situation is in Czech, Ukrainian, Russian and probably many more
languages.  

In strftime() %B returns nominative of month in pl_PL, although genitive is much
more useful. Adding %EB will solve problem for langugages in which only to cases
of month are practically used. But there may be languages in which more forms 
are needed, so maybe something like %nB, where n is a number, would be better.
There also may be need for more forms of weekday names in some languages e.g.

Dzisiaj jest ¶roda, 30 marca 2005 (Today is wednesday, 30 march 2005)
Co¶ siê sta³o w ¶rodê, 30 marca 2005 (Something happend on wednesday, 30 march 2005)

but I think %EA will not have common use.

Pozdrawiam
Slimak (na krawêdzi)

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           Summary: Full month names in languages with declension are not
                    usful for creation of dates
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P3
         Component: libc
        AssignedTo: gotom at debian dot or dot jp
        ReportedBy: slimak at slimak dot info
                CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com


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[Bug libc/809] Full month names in languages with declension are not usful for creation of dates

[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2005-09-22 20:22 -------
Using %EB is definitely not a solution since it has a completely different meaning.

If all this is so unbearable for you then work with the ISO C committee.  This
is nothing which will be handled here.

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX


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[Bug libc/809] Full month names in languages with declension are not usful for creation of dates

[slimak at slimak dot info]

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------- Additional Comments From slimak at slimak dot info  2005-09-22 22:18 -------
Well, standard draft from 5th may 2005 mentions only %E[cCxXyY], so %EB does not
have any meaning there and would be only nice extension. But don't be afraid ---
I am not going to force you to do it ;).

Pozdrawiam
Slimak (na krawêdzi)(In reply to comment #1)

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