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ID: 54699 Comment by: jellofishi at gmail dot com Reported by: info at swedishboy dot se Summary: Abbreviated month comes out wrong. Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Date/time related Operating System: Irrelevant PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: PHP uses the system's libc implementation of srtftime. This is not a PHP specific issue. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-05-10 01:11:13] info at swedishboy dot se Seems like there are more languages that should use different abbreviations depending on the full name. http://library.princeton.edu/departments/tsd/katmandu/reference/months.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-05-10 01:09:02] info at swedishboy dot se Actually my point is that even in English May, June and July shouldn't be shortened. I believe this is actually the typograhic rule. Am I wrong? Maybe use one of the abbreviations for month to follow typographic rules? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-05-10 01:01:51] info at swedishboy dot se Description: ------------ Abbreviated month always displays month names with three letters. However ... in Swedish we never write July and June with three letters. This is seen as wrong and not the standard way of shortening the month names. The reason is simple. July (juli in swedish) when shortening to three letter becomes 'Jul' which is the swedish word for christmas. I realized how stupid and funny it looks when I programmed a calendar plugin for wordpress and I echoed some dates in July. So both July and June should spell out juli and juni when set_locale is set to Swedish language. One more detail; Month names should are written in lowercase in Swedish when used in sentences. This can of course simply be controlled by the programmer using strtolower() and should be the prefered solution I'd say. Test script: --------------- <?php setlocale(LC_ALL, 'sv_SE'); echo strftime('%d %b %Y', strtotime("2 July 2011")); ?> Expected result: ---------------- 2 Juli 2011 Actual result: -------------- 2 Jul 2011 (Jul = Christmas in swedish) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54699&edit=1
