Re: About date formats

> On 11 Apr 2017, at 07:06, Rafal Luzynski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Translators,
> 
> I'm writing these tips in hope they are useful.
> 
> Did you ever have to translate a string which consists mainly
> of some magic "percent-letter" sequences, with a comment that
> this is a date format or that you should read the strftime(3)
> man page for the full format specification or sometimes even
> without any comment at all? Here I'd like to explain only two
> format specifiers:
> 
> - "%d" will produce the day of the month number preceded with
>  zero if it is less than 10 (01, 02, ..., 09, 10, 11...)
> - "%e" will produce the day of the month number preceded with
>  a space if it is less than 10 (" 1", " 2", ... " 9", "10"...)
> 
> If this is what you want to achieve then leave this as it is.
> However, if you prefer to achieve a plain decimal number without
> any additional padding in your translated date format you should
> put "-" between the percent character and the letter. This "-"
> means "do not pad the day number with an additional zero nor an
> additional space". So summarizing:
> 
> - "%B %d" will produce "April 09";
> - "%B %e" will produce "April  9" (notice two spaces);
> - "%B %-d" will produce "April 9";
> - "%B %-e" will produce "April 9".
> 
> Yes, "%-d" and "%-e" produces the same output.
> 
> Of course, "April" will be translated to your language automatically,
> and of course you can reorder the format specifiers (do you want
> "April 9" or "9 April"?) and you can put something different between
> the format specifiers than a single space, according to the rules
> of your language.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Rafal
> 

Hi Rafal,
It's very helpful. Thanks. There is an old L10n tips wiki page on Fedora wiki, it will be better if this can be added in there. Sorry I couldn't find the URL now, but I will try to find it if you are willing to share it on the wiki. 

Regards
From my mobile phone

Tiansworld
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