Christian,
On 4/02/19 10:00 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
Am 03.02.19 um 09:32 schrieb DL Neil:
Now back to ordinal dates - the "st", "th", etc suffixes only work in
English. You'd need another list (but no great coding complexity) to
cope with a second, third, ... language!
Only for some languages. In other languages there can be, for example,
cases (inflections). Then the suffix not only depends on the number, but
also on the case, which is governed by e.g. a preposition or the use in
the sentence. Slavic languages have 6 or 7 cases.
I was unaware of that - not having had to cope with any of the Slavic
languages, to-date. Are multiple cases/inflections used for dates?
French has two, including both male and female ordinals, but only one
applies to dates!
Of course you can make the list two-dimensional to cover that, but then
another language will appear which has yet another different thing....
Basically you'll need to rewrite the whole thing when going to a
completely different language.
Ouch!
However, such limitation also applies to the 'case solution', and worse,
if that additional language/those languages' exceptions apply to
different values, eg 1st, 11th, 2nd, 3rd which are "hard-coded" in the
English convention.
Not good science, but I have been sampling my correspondence today,
inspecting letters, emails, etc, for date-formats. Guess how many use
ordinals? Stuff from the US tends to use numerics in the mm/dd/ccyy
convention. Stuff from the UK and British Commonwealth (excluding
Australia) tends to use month-words or abbreviations (but not ordinals).
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