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From: St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>
To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr; Benoit St-Jean <bstjean@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 12:56:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Bug 6596

On Oct 28, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Benoit St-Jean wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> While looking at bug 6596, I started wondering why we didn't have more options to print dates (and/or their parts).  I've gathered "date formats" printing options from various sources and started implementing all those different formats and options.
> I have implemented 6 new methods to print the different date components/parts/timespans.
>
> Do you think this stuff would be useful? 

Yes
I often just want the one that is not there :)
Note that in French we have

>  14 mai 2002

So it would be good to support it. I imagine that we can with the #(d m y) description.




> Anything missing? 
>
> Here are the supported format options I came up with.  Most of them are already implemented, now it's just a matter of writing the numerous missing unit tests!  ;)
>
> Comments, complaints and suggestions are welcome!
>
> a) Year formats  (#printYearWithFormat:)
>
> May 14, -7
> May 14 2002
>
> 1-Year, signed (-7 and 2002)
> 2-Year, last 2 digits, signed (-07 and 02)
> 3-Year, last 3 digits, signed (-007 and 002)
> 4-Year, last 4 digits or more digits if year is greater than 9999, signed (-0007 and 2002)
> 5-Year, unsigned (7 and 2002)
> 6-Year, last 2 digits, unsigned (07 and 02)
> 7-Year, last 3 digits, unsigned (007 and 002)
> 8-Year, last 4 digits or more digits if year is greater than 9999, unsigned (0007 and 2002)
> 9-Year in roman numerals (n/a and MMII)
> 10-Year (full, no padding) with epoch AD/BC (7 BC and 2002 AD)
> 11-Year (full, no padding) with epoch A.D./B.C. (7 B.C. and 2002 A.D.)
> 12-Year (full, no padding) with epoch ad/bc (7 bc and 2002 ad)
> 13-Year (full, no padding) with epoch a.d./b.c. (7 b.c. and 2002 a.d.)
>
> b) Month formats (#printMonthWithFormat:)
>
> Tuesday, September 18 2012
>
> 1-Month , no padding (9)
> 2-Month padded to 2 digits (09)
> 3-Month name abreviation (Sep)
> 4-Month name (September)
> 5-Month name abreviation in uppercase (SEP)
> 6-Month name in uppercase (SEPTEMBER)
> 7-Month name abreviation in lowercase (sep)
> 8-Month name in lowercase (september)
> 9-Month number in Roman numerals (IX)
>
> c) Day formats (#printDayWithFormat:)
>
> Saturday, December 1 2012
>   
> 1-Day of the month, no padding (1)
> 2-Day of the month padded to 2 digits (01)
> 3-Abbreviated day of week (Sat)
> 4-Complete day of week (Saturday)
> 5-Abbreviated day of week in uppercase (SAT)
> 6-Complete day of week in uppercase (SATURDAY)
> 7-Abbreviated day of week in lowercase (sat)
> 8-Complete day of week lowercase (saturday)
> 9-Day of the month with english suffix (1st)
> 10-Day of the year (336)
> 11-Day of the year with English suffix (336th)
> 12-Day of the week index [0=sunday 6 = saturday] (6)
> 13-Day of the week index [1=sunday 7 = saturday] (7)
> 14-Day of the week index [0=monday 6 = sunday] (5)
> 15-Day of the week index [1=monday 7 = sunday] (6)
> 16-Julian day, i.e. days since January 1, 4712 BC (2456263)
>
> d) Week formats (#printWeekWithFormat:)
>
> 1-Week of the year (1..53) where Sunday if the first day of the week
> 2-Week of the year (1..53) where Monday if the first day of the week
>
> e) Era formats (#printEraWithFormat:)
>
> 1-Era AD or BC
> 2-Era A.D. or B.C.
> 3-Era ad or bc
> 4-Era a.d. or b.c.
>
> f) Century formats (#printCenturyWithFormat:)
>
> 1-Century (20)
> 2-Century with English suffix (20th)
>
> 
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> Benoit St-Jean
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