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Re: Talk about glibc locale format


Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:06:16AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:25:34PM +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:15:09AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
>> > Also the issue on the months, 14652 does allow you to specify that you
>> > have 13 months in a year.
>> 
>> Indeed, mon and abmon accept 13 month names, but how is the mapping
>> performed since the "week" keyword has no "month" counterpart?
>
> Hmm, that is something that could be added. Anyway there are some Muslim
> calendars that have 13 months. It should be investigated how to support
> them. What is there now is probably not enough.

FYI, the Hebrew calendar has 13 months in a "leap" year.  The Baha'i
calendar has 20 months.
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