[issue3173] external strftime for Python?

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

Maybe rather than spending the effort maintaining a legacy API such as strftime, someone could look into implementing localized date formatting as defined by recent Unicode standards:

http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns

Apparently there is a free implementation for Python out there:

http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/dates.html#pattern-syntax

See also msg107236 on issue #8913.

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