[Bug localedata/23140] More languages need two forms of month names

["milupo at sorbzilla dot de" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23140

--- Comment #8 from Michael Wolf <milupo at sorbzilla dot de> ---
Hi Rafał,

thank you for your reply.

Well, you are right, Sorbian languages use the month names in genitive in dates
if the day is specified:

Dźensa je 05. meje 2018. (Upper Sorbian)
Źinsa jo 05. maja 2018. (Lower Sorbian)
Today is 5th May, 2018.

Locative is always used with prepositions. There would be a problem only if
month name placeholders are used because placeholders cannot be inflected.
Strftime() uses such placeholders: %d. %B %Y. %B cannot be inflected so "w %B"
would result in "w meja" instead in correct "w meji". 

Another problem would occur if any software is intended to use the OS locale
for date and time. There is no operating system in Sorbian languages until now.
That's a problem of many minority languages.

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