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Really curious in what scenarios people would be writing enums with months and weekdays.
Because short of developing yet another library to handle date and time, everything else is likely a disaster waiting to happen...
I did it once to pull out data from a spreadsheet into a database. Specifically, I needed
"${DataType}${Month}"for each month for 3 different datatypesIirc, i used an sql pivot (or unpivot) in that query too
Usually, it's situations like this where you're parsing data from strings, and you need some glue code to interface between the input data, and the date library you're using to actually resolve the datetime