https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47211

--- Comment #8 from Andre Klapper <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> Why would it be wrong to use the genitive month names in German?

See comment 4: Simply nobody ever does that. Same in English: Would you say
"December's 25th"? No, but is it wrong? Neither. :D

> It would be great if someone could actually explain this stuff 
> to me instead of just telling me I'm doing it wrong :P

The explanation likely is: Grammars in languages differ, and not all languages
use genitive for month names.
Hmm, maybe
http://erack.org/blog/archives/2-LibreOffice-possessive-genitive-case-and-partitive-case-month-names.html
?

If you feel like looking up strings for a specific language (not the
grammatical case though), go to
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/main , choose your favorite
language, and search for <monthContext type="format"><monthWidth type="wide">
vs. <monthContext type="stand-alone"><monthWidth type="wide">. 

If strings differ, a different case is used. :)

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