This is not a bug report but a feature request.  Sorry if I sent
to the wrong channel.

In the "date" program, it would be nice to have a Quaker
representation of the day of the year.  The Quakers thought that the
names "January" "February," etc., were ungodly, so they only referred
to the months by number.  Their abbreviated date representation used
capitalized roman numerals: 14/II/2000, for example.  I thus propose a
the following GNU extension to the date format, whereby:

date +%Q
yields "14/II/2000"
and
date +%q
yields "the fourteenth day of the second month of the year of our Lord
two thousand," which is the unabbreviated representation.

The Quakers don't do this anymore, but have come to accept the popular
month names.  Nevertheless, it would be nice, for historical
consistency, to have this option.  The sequences %q and %Q aren't yet
taken, and they are easy to remember, unlike the weekday name
sequences %a and %A, for example.

Thank you,
Jonathan Pyle

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