On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 02:20:58PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:56:34 -0700, Eric Blake <[email protected]> said:
> > Coreutils will automatically pick up any fixes in glibc, you'll need to > > get it fixed there first. It would be nice to get POSIX to standardize > > %OB, but that would be easier if you could first get glibc to implement > > the solution to show that it makes sense. > FreeBSD has long implemented %OB, for Russian IIRC. It's documented > thus: > Additionally %OB implemented to represent alternative months names > (used standalone, without day mentioned). This feature was discussed here before, and an interpretation was issued for issue 8: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=258 The functionality already works in FreeBSD, for example: $ LC_TIME=el_GR.UTF-8 date +"%d %B %Y" 13 Φεβρουαρίου 2015 $ LC_TIME=el_GR.UTF-8 date +"%OB %Y" Φεβρουάριος 2015 It was implemented for Greek in 2001: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32120 -- Jilles Tjoelker
