Re: date Feature Request - day of month as 1st, 2nd, 3rd...

[Eric Blake]

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According to address@hidden on 8/21/2009 10:46 AM:
> It would be great to have the option to display a date with the 
> appropriate suffix, e.g. 22nd August, especially now that these 
> display options carry through to the panel clock in GUIs such as 
> XFCE.  
> 
> It appears that %E is still free as a potential format string for 
> the addition of such a nice feature!  :)

Unfortunately, %E is already claimed as a format modifier (as in %Ec as
the locale's alternative date and time representation).

You may want to raise your proposal with the glibc team first in their
strftime(3) interface; coreutils is hesitant to add new % modifiers in
date(1) without prior practice from C libraries.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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