Re: [l10n-cs] Date Format with month names in genitive case - your opinions?

[Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak lingonborough com>]

22.01.2018 13:37 Милош Поповић <gpopac gmail com> wrote:
> For Serbian (as well as for Bosnian, Montenegrian, Croatian) it would be for
> the
> best to keep %B as nominative and add %OB for genitive, since we would require
> nominative in great majority of cases and would make the transition towards
> the
> genitive less complicated and more smooth.

Swapping the meaning of %B and %OB is impossible because it would
also require swapping the meaning of MON_* and ALTMON_* in nl_langinfo().

Regarding the Croatian language, I'm not really sure. Please see:

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/22._leden
https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/22._januar
https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/22._%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80 (22.
јануар = 22. januar)
https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/22._janu%C3%A1r (22. január)

So far so good, all nominative cases. But:

https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/22._sije%C4%8Dnja (22. siječnja)

Therefore I'd rather to hear from the proper translators for
each language individually.

> Serbian example:
> January — januar
> January 21st — 21. januar
> Today is 21st January — Danas je 21. januar
> Appointment on January 21st — Sastanak 21. januara
> Visit your granny on January 21st — Poseti baku 21. januara

This is understandable for me. The new specification says that
%B is "the grammatical form required when the month is used as
part of a complete date" and %OB is "the form required when the
month is named by itself". It does not have to be genitive and
nominative case, respectively. If in Serbian it is always the
nominative case then let it remain as it is now. It's not obligatory
to introduce the genitive case, it makes sense only if it is helpful
for the language community and only if you find the current (old)
implementation incorrect. That's why I'm asking first.

Regards,

Rafal