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[Bug localedata/21897] aa_DJ: fix abmon:abday
- From: "maiku.fabian at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 07:00:43 +0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/21897] aa_DJ: fix abmon:abday
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- References: <bug-21897-716@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
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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