All strings are case insensitive.
- Month names and abbreviations
- When writing out the name of the month, several different variations may
exist including full names and abbreviations.
The following month names may be used:
Januar
Jänner
Februar
März
Marz
Maerz
April
Mai
Juni
Juli
August
September
Oktober
November
Dezember
The following abbreviations may be used:
Jän
Jan
Feb
Mär
Mar
Apr
Mai
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Okt
Nov
Dez
- Day names and abbreviations
- When writing out the name of the day, several different variations may
exist including full names and abbreviations.
The following day names may be used:
Montag
Dienstag
Mittwoch
Donnerstag
Freitag
Samstag
Sonnabend
Sonntag
The following abbreviations may be used:
Mo
Mo.
Di
Di.
Mi
Mi.
Do
Do.
Fr
Fr.
Sa
Sa.
So
So.
The following short (1-2 characters) abbreviations may be
used:
M
Di
Mi
Do
F
Sa
So
- Delta field names
- These are the names (and abbreviations) for the fields in a delta. There
are 7 fields: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds.
The names and abbreviations for these fields are:
Jahren
j
Jahr
Jahre
Monaten
m
Monat
Monate
Wochen
w
Woche
Tagen
t
Tag
Tage
Stunden
h
std
Stunde
Minuten
min
Minute
Sekunden
s
sek
Sekunde
- Morning/afternoon times
- This is a list of expressions use to designate morning or afternoon time
when a time is entered as a 12-hour time rather than a 24-hour time. For
example, in English, the time "17:00" could be specified as
"5:00 PM".
Morning and afternoon time may be designated by the following
sets of words:
FM
vorm.
EM
nachm.
- Each or every
- There are a list of words that specify every occurrence of something.
These are used in the following phrases:
EACH Monday
EVERY Monday
EVERY month
The following words may be used:
jeden
- Next/Previous/Last occurrence
- There are a list of words that may be used to specify the next, previous,
or last occurrence of something. These words could be used in the
following phrases:
NEXT week
LAST Tuesday
PREVIOUS Tuesday
LAST day of the month
The following words may be used:
Next occurrence:
nachsten
nächsten
nachste
nächste
Previous occurrence:
vorherigen
vorherige
letzte
letzten
Last occurrence:
letzten
letzte
- Delta words for going forward/backward in time
- When parsing deltas, there are words that may be used to specify the the
delta will refer to a time in the future or to a time in the past
(relative to some date). In English, for example, you might say:
IN 5 days
5 days AGO
The following words may be used to specify deltas that refer
to dates in the past or future respectively:
vor
vorigen
vorherigen
vorherige
in
spater
später
- Business mode
- This contains two lists of words which can be used to specify a standard
(i.e. non-business) delta or a business delta.
Previously, it was used to tell whether the delta was
approximate or exact, but now this list is not used except to force the
delta to be standard.
The following words may be used:
genau
ungefahr
ungefähr
The following words may be used to specify a business
delta:
Arbeitstag
Arbeits
- Numbers
- Numbers may be spelled out in a variety of ways. The following sets
correspond to the numbers from 1 to 53:
1.
erste
erster
eins
2.
zweite
zwei
zweiter
3.
dritte
drei
dritter
4.
vierte
vier
5.
funfte
fünfte
fünf
fünfter
funf
funfter
6.
sechste
sechs
sechster
7.
siebente
siebte
sieben
siebter
8.
achte
achten
9.
neunte
neun
neunten
10.
zehnte
zehn
zehnten
11.
elfte
elf
12.
zwolfte
zwölfte
zwölf
zwölften
zwolf
zwolften
13.
dreizehnte
dreizehn
14.
vierzehnte
vierzehn
15.
funfzehnte
fünfzehnte
fünfzehn
fünfzehnten
funfzehn
funfzehnten
16.
sechzehnte
sechzehn
17.
siebzehnte
siebzehn
18.
achtzehnte
achtzehn
19.
neunzehnte
neunzehn
20.
zwanzigste
zwanzig
zwanzigsten
21.
einundzwanzigste
einundzwanzigsten
22.
zweiundzwanzigste
zweiundzwanzigsten
23.
dreiundzwanzigste
dreiundzwanzigsten
24.
vierundzwanzigste
vierundzwanzigsten
25.
funfundzwanzigste
fünfundzwanzigste
fünfundzwanzigsten
funfundzwanzigsten
26.
sechsundzwanzigste
sechsundzwanzigsten
27.
siebenundzwanzigste
siebenundzwanzigsten
28.
achtundzwanzigste
achtundzwanzigsten
29.
neunundzwanzigste
neunundzwanzigsten
30.
dreibigste
dreißigste
dreißig
dreißigsten
dreibig
dreibigsten
31.
einunddreibigste
einunddreißigste
einunddreißig
einunddreißigsten
einunddreibig
einunddreibigsten
32.
zweiunddreißig
zweiunddreißigste
zweiunddreibig
zweiunddreibigste
33.
dreiunddreißig
dreiunddreißigsten
dreiunddreibig
dreiunddreibigsten
34.
vierunddreißig
vierunddreißigste
vierunddreibig
vierunddreibigste
35.
fünfunddreißig
fünfunddreißigste
funfunddreibig
funfunddreibigste
36.
sechsunddreißig
sechsunddreißigste
sechsunddreibig
sechsunddreibigste
37.
siebenunddreißig
siebenunddreißigsten
siebenunddreibig
siebenunddreibigsten
38.
achtunddreißig
achtunddreißigsten
achtunddreibig
achtunddreibigsten
39.
neununddreißig
neununddreißigsten
neununddreibig
neununddreibigsten
40.
vierzig
vierzigsten
41.
einundvierzig
einundvierzigsten
42.
zweiundvierzig
zweiundvierzigsten
43.
dreiundvierzig
dreiundvierzigsten
44.
vierundvierzig
vierundvierzigsten
45.
fünfundvierzig
fünfundvierzigsten
funfundvierzig
funfundvierzigsten
46.
sechsundvierzig
sechsundvierzigsten
47.
siebenundvierzig
siebenundvierzigste
47.
siebenundvierzig
siebenundvierzigste
49.
neunundvierzig
neunundvierzigsten
50.
fünfzig
fünfzigsten
funfzig
funfzigsten
51.
einundfünfzig
einundfünfzigsten
einundfunfzig
einundfunfzigsten
52.
zweiundfünfzig
zweiundfünfzigsten
zweiundfunfzig
zweiundfunfzigsten
53.
dreiundfünfzig
dreiundfünfzigsten
dreiundfunfzig
dreiundfunfzigsten
- Ignored words
- In writing out dates in common forms, there are a number of words that are
typically not important.
There is frequently a word that appears in a phrase to
designate that a time is going to be specified next. In English, you
would use the word AT in the example:
December 3 at 12:00
The following words may be used:
um
Another word is used to designate one member of a set. In
English, you would use the words IN or OF:
1st day OF December
1st day IN December
The following words may be used:
der
im
des
Another word is use to specify that something is on a certain
date. In English, you would use ON:
ON July 5th
The following words may be used:
am
- Words that set the date, time, or both
- There are some words that can be used to specify a date, a time, or both
relative to now.
Words that set the date are similar to the English words
'yesterday' or 'tomorrow'. These are specified as a delta which is added
to the current time to get a date. The time is NOT set however, so the
delta is only partially used (it should only include year, month, week,
and day fields).
The following words may be used:
gestern -0:0:0:1:0:0:0
heute 0:0:0:0:0:0:0
morgen +0:0:0:1:0:0:0
übermorgen +0:0:0:2:0:0:0
Words that set only the time of day are similar to the English
words 'noon' or 'midnight'.
The following words may be used:
mittag 12:00:00
mitternacht 00:00:00
Words that set the entire time and date (relative to the
current time and date) are also available.
In English, the word 'now' is one of these.
The following words may be used:
jetzt 0:0:0:0:0:0:0
- Hour/Minute/Second separators
- When specifying the time of day, the most common separator is a colon (:)
which can be used for both separators.
Some languages use different pairs. For example, French allows
you to specify the time as 13h30:20, so it would use the following
pairs:
: :
h :
The first column is the hour-minute separator and the second
column is the minute-second separator. Both are perl regular
expressions. When creating a new translation, be aware that regular
expressions with utf-8 characters may be tricky. For example, don't
include the expression '[x]' where 'x' is a utf-8 character.
A pair of colons is ALWAYS allowed for all languages. If a
language allows additional pairs, they are listed here:
Not defined in this language
- Fractional second separator
- When specifying fractional seconds, the most common way is to use a
decimal point (.). Some languages may specify a different separator that
might be used. If this is done, it is a regular expression.
The decimal point is ALWAYS allowed for all languages. If a
language allows another separator, it is listed here:
Not defined in this language