Module:Sandbox/trappist the monk/i18n dates

require('strict');

--[[--< M A I N >--

use this from the debug console: =p.main ('') where:  is a language tag know to MediaWiki

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local function main (lang_tag) local long_names_from_lang_object_t = {}; local short_names_from_lang_object_t = {}; local lang_obj = mw.language.new (lang_tag);								-- make a new language object for the language supplied in  for i=1, 12 do																-- loop 12x and long_names_from_lang_object_t[i] = lang_obj:formatDate ('F', '2018-' .. i .. '-1');			-- get long month name for each i

short_names_from_lang_object_t[i] = lang_obj:formatDate ('M', '2018-' .. i .. '-1');		-- get short month name for each i	end

return table.concat (short_names_from_lang_object_t, ' | ') .. '\n' .. table.concat (long_names_from_lang_object_t, ' | ') end

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return { main = main, }