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Re: [RFC][PATCH v5 01/13] Implement alternative month names (bug 10871).
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Rafal Luzynski
<digitalfreak@lingonborough.com> wrote:
>
> Now I'm thinking about another thing: I still wonder if abbreviated
> months names (ABMON and %b) should also have their alternative
> (nominative/genitive) form.
Yes, yes they should. To be honest I had assumed your patch already
did that. (The май/мая example is sufficient evidence that it's
needed.)
> So far I'm not aware of any implementation of
> strftime() supporting this so if that's ever implemented it will
> be purely GNU-only extension.
That's OK. It'll probably get picked up by others once demonstrated
to be needed.
zw