module PartialDate

Key:

The first 5 bits are the day (max 31)
The next 4 bits are the month (max 12)
The next 20 bits are the year (max 1048576)
The most significant bit (MSB) is a 1 bit sign bit (for negative years).

TODO: Implement i18n support detecting whether a load path has been set or not and if not - setting it here to a default set of translations that match the generally available tranlsations for localizing dates.

github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/blob/master/lib/i18n/backend/base.rb format = format.to_s.gsub(/%/) do |match|

case match
when '%a' then I18n.t(:"date.abbr_day_names",                  :locale => locale, :format => format)[object.wday]
when '%A' then I18n.t(:"date.day_names",                       :locale => locale, :format => format)[object.wday]
when '%b' then I18n.t(:"date.abbr_month_names",                :locale => locale, :format => format)[object.mon]
when '%B' then I18n.t(:"date.month_names",                     :locale => locale, :format => format)[object.mon]
when '%p' then I18n.t(:"time.#{object.hour < 12 ? :am : :pm}", :locale => locale, :format => format) if object.respond_to? :hour
end

end

partial-date version