NAME

Date::Manip::Lang::danish - Danish language support.

SYNOPSIS

This module contains a list of words and expressions supporting the language. It is not intended to be used directly (other Date::Manip modules will load it as needed).

LANGUAGE EXPRESSIONS

The following is a list of all language words and expressions used to write times and/or dates.

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
Februar
Marts
April
Maj
Juni
Juli
August
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:

Mandag
Tirsdag
Onsdag
Torsdag
Fredag
Lørdag
Lordag
Søndag
Sondag

The following abbreviations may be used:

Man
Tir
Ons
Tor
Fre
Lør
Lor
Søn
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
maneder
måneder
man
maned
mån
måned
uger
u
uge
dage
d
dag
timer
t
tim
time
minutter
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
f.m.
EM
e.m.

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:

hver

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:

naste
næste

Previous occurrence:

forrige

Last occurrence:

forrige
sidste
nyeste

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:

siden
om
senere

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:

pracist
præcist
circa

The following words may be used to specify a business delta:

arbejdsdag
arbejdsdage

Numbers

Numbers may be spelled out in a variety of ways. The following sets correspond to the numbers from 1 to 53:

1.
forste
første
en
2.
anden
to
3.
tredie
tre
4.
fjerde
fire
5.
femte
fem
6.
sjette
seks
7.
syvende
syv
8.
ottende
otte
9.
niende
ni
10.
tiende
ti
11.
elfte
elleve
12.
tolvte
tolv
13.
trettende
tretten
14.
fjortende
fjorten
15.
femtende
femten
16.
sekstende
seksten
17.
syttende
sytten
18.
attende
atten
19.
nittende
nitten
20.
tyvende
tyve
21.
enogtyvende
enogtyve
22.
toogtyvende
toogtyve
23.
treogtyvende
treogtyve
24.
fireogtyvende
fireogtyve
25.
femogtyvende
femogtyve
26.
seksogtyvende
seksogtyve
27.
syvogtyvende
syvogtyve
28.
otteogtyvende
otteogtyve
29.
niogtyvende
niogtyve
30.
tredivte
tredive
31.
enogtredivte
enogtredive
32.
toogtredivte
toogtredive
33.
treogtredivte
treogtredive
34.
fireogtredivte
fireogtredive
35.
femogtredivte
femogtredive
36.
seksogtredivte
seksogtredive
37.
syvogtredivte
syvogtredive
38.
otteogtredivte
otteogtredive
39.
niogtredivte
niogtredive
40.
fyrretyvende
fyrre
41.
enogtyvende
enogtyve
42.
toogtyvende
toogtyve
43.
treogtyvende
treogtyve
44.
fireogtyvende
fireogtyve
45.
femogtyvende
femogtyve
46.
seksogtyvende
seksogtyve
47.
syvogtyvende
syvogtyve
48.
otteogtyvende
otteogtyve
49.
niogtyvende
niogtyve
50.
halvtredsindstyvende
halvtreds
51.
enogindstyvende
enogindstyve
52.
toogindstyvende
toogindstyve
53.
treogindstyvende
treogindstyve

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:

klokken
kl
kl.

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:

idag                 0:0:0:0:0:0:0
igar                 -0:0:0:1:0:0:0
igår                 -0:0:0:1:0:0:0
imorgen              +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:

midnat               00:00:00
midt pa dagen        12:00:00
midt 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

KNOWN BUGS

None known.

BUGS AND QUESTIONS

Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information on submitting bug reports or questions to the author.

LICENSE

This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)