[Bug 196108] New: kmail mistakenly uses genetive while displaying months only in message list (in Polish, language dependent)

[Marcin Trybus]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196108

           Summary: kmail mistakenly uses genetive while displaying months
                    only in message list (in Polish, language dependent)
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: mtrybus at o2.pl


Version:            (using KDE 4.2.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I reported it yesterday to Debian as bug #532696, but I was asked to send it
upstream. 
Original bug report: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532696 

Sorry if this was reported before. I didn't have time to look through the list
very meticulously. 

This problem is language specific so I guess I should describe what I mean.

KDE always had my appreciation for using the correct grammatical case for dates
when the appropriate option in local settings was ticked. The problem is Polish
only uses genetive for specific dates. Eg. current month in Polish is
'czerwiec' (June) and the date today is '11 czerwca'. (It comes from the full
expression that can be translated as 'June's 11th day', hence genetive is
used.) 

Anyway, the problem is kmail uses the month's name in genetive even without the
day, which looks really silly. It's visible eg. in inbox where old messages are
grouped by month. 

Since KDE already stores both versions of the month's name it's the problem of
kmail using one of them to display dates whereas it should mix and match to fit
the usage. I'm not sure how this looks like in different languages, but I'm
quite certain all Slavic languages follow the same pattern.

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