Indeed there is also "The twenty-second of July" format. But for Chinese it's like the user can get Seventh month, but not seventh day, all due to there being %A and %B, only down to the n
Anyway isn't it odd that there are only locale’s abbreviated weekday name (e.g., ‘Sun’) locale’s full weekday name, variable length (e.g., ‘Sunday’) locale’s abbreviated month name (e.g., ‘Jan’) locale’s full month name, variable length (e.g., ‘January’) but no (1-31) day pairs? >>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes: PE> On 2025-02-16 00:09, Dan Jacobson wrote: PE> Sorry, I don't understand the bug report. Are you asking for a new PE> feature, or are you saying that currently GNU 'date' outputs incorrect PE> strings for %A and/or %B? If the former, what new feature exactly? And >> Yes the former. PE> OK, marking this as a wishlist item then. PE> We have similar problems in English too. There's no date format that PE> outputs "Sunday, the 16th of February", or "II.16" or a bunch of other PE> English-language dates. I imagine there are similar problems in nearly PE> every language that "date" claims to support.