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:
Januari
Februari
Mars
April
Maj
Juni
Juli
Augusti
September
Oktober
November
December
The following abbreviations may be used:
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
Maj
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Okt
Nov
Dec
- 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:
Måndag
Mandag
Tisdag
Onsdag
Torsdag
Fredag
Lördag
Lordag
Söndag
Sondag
The following abbreviations may be used:
Mån
Man
Tis
Ons
Tor
Fre
Lör
Lor
Sön
Son
The following short (1-2 characters) abbreviations may be
used:
M
Ti
O
To
F
L
S
- 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:
ar
år
manader
månader
man
manad
mån
månad
veckor
v
vecka
dagar
d
dag
timmar
t
tim
timme
minuter
m
min
minut
sekunder
s
sek
sekund
- 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
EM
- 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:
varje
- 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:
nasta
nästa
Previous occurrence:
forra
förra
Last occurrence:
forra
förra
senaste
- 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:
sedan
om
senare
- 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:
exakt
ungefar
ungefär
The following words may be used to specify a business
delta:
arbetsdag
arbetsdagar
- Numbers
- Numbers may be spelled out in a variety of ways. The following sets
correspond to the numbers from 1 to 53:
1:a
en
ett
forsta
första
2:a
två
tva
andra
3:e
tre
tredje
4:e
fyra
fjarde
fjärde
5:e
fem
femte
6:e
sex
sjatte
sjätte
7:e
sju
sjunde
8:e
åtta
atta
attonde
åttonde
9:e
nio
nionde
10:e
tio
tionde
11:e
elva
elfte
12:e
tolv
tolfte
13:e
tretton
trettonde
14:e
fjorton
fjortonde
15:e
femton
femtonde
16:e
sexton
sextonde
17:e
sjutton
sjuttonde
18:e
arton
artonde
19:e
nitton
nittonde
20:e
tjugo
tjugonde
21:a
tjugoen
tjugoett
tjugoforsta
tjugoförsta
22:a
tjugotvå
tjugotva
tjugoandra
23:e
tjugotre
tjugotredje
24:e
tjugofyra
tjugofjarde
tjugofjärde
25:e
tjugofem
tjugofemte
26:e
tjugosex
tjugosjatte
tjugosjätte
27:e
tjugosju
tjugosjunde
28:e
tjugoåtta
tjugoatta
tjugoattonde
tjugoåttonde
29:e
tjugonio
tjugonionde
30:e
trettio
trettionde
31:a
trettioen
trettioett
trettioforsta
trettioförsta
32:a
trettiotvå
trettiotva
trettioandra
33:e
trettiotre
trettiotredje
34:e
trettiofyra
trettiofjarde
trettiofjärde
35:e
trettiofem
trettiofemte
36:e
trettiosex
trettiosjatte
trettiosjätte
37:e
trettiosju
trettiosjunde
38:e
trettioåtta
trettioatta
trettioattonde
trettioåttonde
39:e
trettionio
trettionionde
40:e
fyrtio
fyrtionde
41:a
fyrtioen
fyrtioett
fyrtioforsta
fyrtioförsta
42:a
fyrtiotvå
fyrtiotva
fyrtioandra
43:e
fyrtiotre
fyrtiotredje
44:e
fyrtiofyra
fyrtiofjarde
fyrtiofjärde
45:e
fyrtiofem
fyrtiofemte
46:e
fyrtiosex
fyrtiosjatte
fyrtiosjätte
47:e
fyrtiosju
fyrtiosjunde
48:e
fyrtioåtta
fyrtioatta
fyrtioattonde
fyrtioåttonde
49:e
fyrtionio
fyrtionionde
50:e
femtio
femtionde
51:a
femtioen
femtioett
femtioforsta
femtioförsta
52:a
femtiotvå
femtiotva
femtioandra
53:e
femtiotre
femtiotredje
- 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:
kl
kl.
klockan
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:
om
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:
pa
på
- 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:
i dag 0:0:0:0:0:0:0
i gar -0:0:0:1:0:0:0
i går -0:0:0:1:0:0:0
i morgon +0:0:0:1:0:0:0
idag 0:0:0:0:0:0:0
igar -0:0:0:1:0:0:0
igår -0:0:0:1:0:0:0
imorgon +0:0:0:1:0:0:0
Words that set only the time of day are similar to the English
words 'noon' or 'midnight'.
The following words may be used:
midnatt 00:00:00
mitt pa dagen 12:00:00
mitt på dagen 12:00:00
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:
nu 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:
\. :
- 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