Thank you Hans and Wolfgang,

I have updated the wiki (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/date) with the new dayshort/daylong options, but I seem to get an empty value for every day after day 7, see example:

\starttext
\date[d=7,m=4,y=2008][{\dayshort\normalday},{,~},day,~,month,~,year] \par
\date[d=8,m=4,y=2008][{\dayshort\normalday},{,~},day,~,month,~,year]
\stoptext

This gives me (note "sun" is missing in the second line):

sat, 7 April 2008
, 8 April 2008

Am I using the options correctly?

Still using luatex and not luametatex.

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Thanks,

Adam

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 11:24 AM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

On 4/4/2020 11:47 AM, Adam Reviczky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to achieve a short weekday option with \date[] to get 3
> letter equivalents (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun) similar to the
> monthshort either through context or lua?
Not currently but I will add the basics (I have to double check with WS
to see where if conflicts as such an extension involves additional
commands it has to go into the setups too) but others have to add the
abbreviations.

Hans

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