Re: [PATCH v3] Fix Days and Months name for Afar Locale

[Mike FABIAN <mfabian at redhat dot com>]

Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com> wrote:

> Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh.k@samsung.com> wrote:
>
>> Reference is taken from "Localization Standard for Afaraf"
>>
>> http://www.mcit.gov.et/documents/1268465/1282796/Localization+\
>> Standard+for+AFARAF/4dab7d83-e6df-4f4f-b236-b89748c456e9?version=1.0
>
> Nice, so the month and day names we had so far, were almost completly
> wrong, according to that standard ..
>
>> -%
>> -% Equivalent of AM PM
>> -%
>> -am_pm    "<U0073><U0061><U0061><U006B><U0075>";/
>> -         "<U0063><U0061><U0072><U0072><U0061>"
>
> Why did you remove am_pm? and only for aa_DJ, not for aa_ET?
>
>> +mon      "Waysu";/
>> +         "Diteli";/
>> +         "Ximoli";/
>> +         "Kaxxa<U002D>Garablu";/
>> +         "Qunxa<U002D>Garablu";/
>> +         "Naharsi<U002D>kudo";/
>> +         "Ciggilta<U002D>kudo";/
>> +         "Agda<U002D>baxisso";/
>> +         "Caxah<U002D>alsa";/
>> +         "Qado<U002D>Dirri";/
>> +         "Qasa<U002D>Dirri";/
>> +         "Laqeeni";/
>> +         "Paguume"

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, or does it?

-- 
Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>