[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22225: WordPress does not localize ordinal suffixes in dates

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#22225: WordPress does not localize ordinal suffixes in dates
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 Reporter:  mihaimihai                           |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Awaiting
Component:  I18N                                 |  Review
 Severity:  normal                               |     Version:  3.4.2
 Keywords:  dev-feedback has-patch has-unit-     |  Resolution:
  tests needs-testing                            |     Focuses:
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Comment (by realloc):

 Replying to [comment:6 gibrown]:
 > @realloc nice approach of using wp-locale, but I think there is some
 confusion about 'S'. It is the day of the month rather than the month
 number. So for instance, the output of

 Thanks a lot! After reading http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
 again I have to admit that your are completely right. 'S' is indeed not
 meant for months but for days.

 > Also looks like in PHP 5.3.0+ there is support for
 [http://stackoverflow.com/a/4392684 formatting an ordinal]. So maybe
 should use that with a reasonable fall back for old versions of PHP?

 It seems that the class NumberFormatter needs PHP 5 >= 5.3.0 and PECL intl
 >= 1.0.0 ... I'm sure that discussions about these things will be very
 interesting in the near future.

 Anyway, I worked on a new solution today. ;) I think that WordPress should
 at least provide the functionality for the English ordinal numbers but
 should also come with a filter so that a developer could extend it easily.
 In German the rules are very different for example: they append the suffix
 'te' to numbers from 0 to 19 and 'ste' from 20 and above.

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