Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-20 Thread Rafal Luzynski
20.04.2017 23:01 David Sapienza wrote: > > I didn't consider the fact that there are very few applications where the > standalone month name is used (e.g. calendars). Considering that, the problem > of "breaking" some applications, that was my main concern about

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-20 Thread Rafal Luzynski
20.04.2017 15:06 Fabio Tomat wrote: > > Just to make things more complicated, I wanted to inform you that in > Friulian, we use this literally translated form: > at the _DAY_ of _MONTH_ of the YEAR > > Moreover we use ordinal and cardinal day numbers, ordinal for the

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-20 Thread Rafal Luzynski
Thanks for your clarification, Tom. What you wrote is exactly what I meant. See also more comments below: 20.04.2017 13:05 Tom Tryfonidis wrote: > > I have a feeling that the use of nominative and genitive cases on the topic > is the main reason for misunderstandings. We

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-20 Thread David Sapienza via gnome-i18n
I didn't consider the fact that there are very few applications where the standalone month name is used (e.g. calendars). Considering that, the problem of "breaking" some applications, that was my main concern about your proposal, could be solved without too many effort. Original

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-20 Thread Fabio Tomat
Just to make things more complicated, I wanted to inform you that in Friulian, we use this literally translated form: at the _DAY_ of _MONTH_ of the YEAR Moreover we use ordinal and cardinal day numbers, ordinal for the first day of the month, and cardinal for the others (2-31) Moreover we use

Re: Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

2017-04-20 Thread Tom Tryfonidis
I have a feeling that the use of nominative and genitive cases on the topic is the main reason for misunderstandings. We need to focus whether we should use %B for "full date" form or not, as this is the common factor for all languages now. Greek translations (i assume other affected languages