Re: date: Chinese: confusing on Sundays

[James Youngman]

On 12/12/06, Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Please forward this to whoever.
> A funny thing happens on Sundays if you are Chinese.
> $ LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.utf8 date -d sunday
> 日 12月 10 00:00:00 CST 2006
>
> The problem occurs because the word 日 means "Sunday" and also "day"
> in Chinese.

This is really a translation problem.  You should bring it up with the
Chinese translation team.  See
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/registry.cgi?team=zh_TW

It's possible that the Chinese (Traditional) translation team may not
be able to fix this problem because it's inherent in the language.
You might try emailing address@hidden

James.