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sr #106540: wish: date should support the english suffices such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd...

Submitter:  Richard Neill <richardneill>
Submitted:  Mon 03 Nov 2008 06:10:02 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  1 - Wish Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Operating System:  GNU/Linux

Mon 03 Nov 2008 06:10:02 PM UTC, original submission:  

A small request for enhancement: it would be wonderful if the dates formatted by `date` could include the english language ordinal suffices.

Eg : date -d "$DATE" "+%A, %-d %B %Y"  
results in:  "Monday, 3 November 2008"
but I'd like to have "Monday, 3rd November 2008" instead.

By way of comparison,  PHP uses %j%S to do this:
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Of course, there may be some i18n issues, which make this not-quite-trivial to implement; likewise it would be nice if date could recognise the strings with suffices too.

Thanks very much,

Richard

Richard Neill <richardneill>

 

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