[PATCH v6 1/2] strftime: Set the default width of "%Ey" to 2 [BZ #23758]

[Rafal Luzynski]

18.01.2019 14:59 TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki@linet.gr.jp> wrote:
> [...]
> From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] strftime: Set the default width of "%Ey" to 2
> [BZ #23758]
> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:45:37 -0500
> 
> > The thing I was trying to say is that "%Ey" (in the ja_JP locale)
> > produces the number of a year _within_ an era.  In this context, the
> > Japanese word I want is not the word for the _name_ of an era, but the
> > word for an era itself.  What is that word?
> 
> Hmm, I cannot think of the word for an era itself.

I think we can skip the parentheses and their contents completely
if the English text outside is sufficient and the Japanese term is
only bringing confusion.

Regards,

Rafal