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Language specific date formats
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Description
Hello,
In swedish there are 2 specific ways that dates are written very commonly that I have not seen support for. Specifically dates can be written like "den 24:e December" and "201226" (2020-12-26). The first one is not recognised due to the ":e" which is a very common way of writing dates in sweden and the second returns the wrong date datetime.datetime(2022, 2, 1, 6, 0). I am assuming the second can be rectified with some setting but short of removing the ":e" I cannot see a way of tackling the first one.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the two Swedish examples from the issue in dateparser and inspect how Swedish date formats and date-order settings are selected. Confirm the intended interpretations for “den 24:e December” and “201226”, then add coverage showing both forms are parsed correctly.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- localization
- Issue type
- Bug
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- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
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