On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 5:21 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2020-Jan-28, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > On 2020-01-28 04:05, Mark Dilger wrote: > > > German uses both Sonnabend and Samstag for Saturday, so don’t you have > to compare to a list of values anyway? > > > > Yeah, good point. If it doesn't accept both "Sonnabend" and "Samstag", > then > > it's not really usable. > > The string "Sonnabend" never appears in the glibc sources, so that will > certainly not work. I vote not to care about that, but of course my > language is not one that has alternate weekday/month names. I guess if > we're intent on recognizing alternate names, we'll have to build our own > list of them :-( > > I don't have the ICU sources here to check the status there. > > "Sonnabend" is neither available in ICU. What is available are both genitive and nominative forms for months, as reported up thread by Peter. See formats "M" and "L" in: http://userguide.icu-project.org/formatparse/datetime Regards, Juan José Santamaría Flecha
