What the %$#! are genitive dates?

Improving genitive. Or not.... (part 3): The hazards of "off label" usage

Sorting it all Out — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:02:14 GMT

Previous posts in the series are Improving genitive. Or not.... (part 1) and Improving genitive. Or not

re: What the %$#! are genitive dates?

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:34:49 GMT

We actually have not been receiving lots of feedback in past versions, though we are (finally) receiving some now....

re: What the %$#! are genitive dates?

Egbert Zijlema — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:23:17 GMT

quote: "(...), it is yet another reason to use the built-in functions (...) rather than trying to write one's own!"

If everything were correct, but unfortunately it isn't. For at least 4 long date formats Windows returns incorrect strings. In a Catalonian long date the short date separator (slash) is used instead of the word "de"; in an English (UK) and a Welsh long date there is no day name and in the Swedish long date the medieval word "den" is used instead of the proper day name. Why does MS not correct this, despite the tons of complaints they must have received? I'm using XP, but as far as I know in Vista and 7 these errors are still alive. (Also see: http://zijlema.basicguru.eu)

Latvian. Genitive. Oops.

Sorting it all Out — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:03:15 GMT

This blog is about an issue a customer forwaded to me recently, but I found out (just after I had it

Windows is too busy being consistent with the user to be consistent with itself!

Sorting it all Out — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:50:08 GMT

The mail that came on the other day was: We’re seeing an issue that doesn’t seem correct to me, but I

A re-genitive post

Sorting It All Out — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:35:59 GMT

People may recall that I have talked about genitive dates in whole heap o' posts: What the %$#! are genitive

Practical Uses for Replacement Cultures/Locales

Sorting It All Out — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:04:01 GMT

In the past, I have talked a lot about genitive month names.
And I have talked a few times about custom...

Double compressions -- Hungarian goulash?

Sorting It All Out — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:29:40 GMT

Different languages bring different expectations. And people who natively speak, write, and read languages...

Pardon my French, but...

kurakuraninja — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 21:49:29 GMT

John Yunker posted an ironic little ditty a few days ago entitled Pardon My French. The post's scariest...

Don't roll your own GetDateFormat

Sorting It All Out — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:00:21 GMT

A few days ago, Daniel asked (in the microsoft.public.win32.programmer.international newsgroup):

This...