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All locales offer both numerical and alphabetical formats for representing months.
All locales offer both numerical and alphabetical formats for representing months.
*In the following table "MMM"  is shown as producing short month name.
*In the following table "MMM"  is shown as producing short month name.
**What language is used, and what characters appear, depend on what is set up for your language in your settings (by default or by you changing your settings)
**In British English (UK) locale this will be the appropriate 3 letter abbreviation that starts with "Jan" and runs to "Dec"
**In British English (UK) locale this will be the appropriate 3 letter abbreviation that starts with "Jan" and runs to "Dec"
**But your locale might add a full stop to that ("Jan." to "Dec."), or output whatever you have defined as another format or another language
**It appears that language settings in many locales (not "en-gb"), add a full stop to any abbreviations (e.g. Australia settings default to "Jan." to "Dec.")
*** MX has been coded to remove that full stop in various places (like in standard log file naming and NOAA report naming), but at the time this section was edited, "MMM" still reports the full stop if your locale uses it
*In the following table "MMMM" is shown as producing the full name for a month
*In the following table "MMMM" is shown as producing the full name for a month
**This will depend on the language defined in your locale
**This will depend on the language defined in your locale
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