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13:49:43
contrapunctus
Duuqnd: LOCAL-TIME keeps weekday names in unexported variables. The alternative I thought of was to create 'throwaway' dates (not all weekdays correspond to dates printed in the calendar - note the leading empty cells) and use the day of week accessors, but I ran into the problem I described above.
13:52:03
beach
Acclimation has names of weekdays in English, French, Afrikaans, German, Japanese, Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese, if that's what you want.
13:57:49
Duuqnd
I haven't been thinking much about multiple languages since if we support that now we'd probably end up doing something a little too platform specific
13:58:56
Duuqnd
And partially because I've been annoyed to death by calendar programs insisting I use Swedish weekday names even though my system language is set to English
14:00:59
Duuqnd
I think at one point I ended up trying to make my own locale setting on Linux to fix it only to learn that the version of Thunderbird I was using simply didn't handle locale setting properly
14:01:56
beach
Some programs on this Linux system display dates in French, but they display it with the month first and the date after, as in English. That is also annoying.