[Bug localedata/21897] aa_DJ: fix abmon:abday

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21897

Mike FABIAN <maiku.fabian at gmail dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Mike FABIAN <maiku.fabian at gmail dot com> ---
These are 13 month names.

http://www.mcit.gov.et/documents/1268465/1282796/Localization+Standard+for+AFARAF/4dab7d83-e6df-4f4f-b236-b89748c456e9?version=1.0

says:

> 9. Calendar  
> 9.1 System of the Calendar   
> 
> Ethiopia officially uses a calendar which is different from the
> Gregorian calendar.  The calendar is known as Ethiopian Calendar (E.C.)
> which is 7 years behind the Gregorian calendar, from September 11/ 12 to
> December, and 8 years behind for the rest, i.e.  January to September
> 10/ 11.  The calendar has 12 months each having 30 days equally and an
> additional 5/6 days depending on the leap year, where 5 days are during
> normal year and 6 days for the Ethiopian leap year. These additional 5/6
> days are called P'agume and come at the end of the year as the “13th
> month”.
>  
> In the Ethiopian calendar, New Year starts on the 1st of the month of
> Meskerem which falls on 11th of September in the Gregorian calendar
> except the year next to the Ethiopian leap year which is September 12.
>  
> 9.2   Names of Months   
> Table 3: Afaraf names of months  
> 
> [... table with the names of the 13 months ...]

I’m not sure how this can be put in to the aa_* locale files at all.

glibc does not support Ethiopian calendar.

Rafał Lużyński writes:

> If preparing locales for the countries which use non-Gregorian
> calendars we should rather ask how do they call Gregorian months.

I agree.

So unless a native speaker tells us how to call the Gregorian
months correctly, we cannot fix this.

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