# Month names from month number discussion

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/month-names-from-month-number-discussion/228>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 29, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/month-names-from-month-number-discussion/228 "2019-10-29T15:55:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![7596ff](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/7596ff/32/63_2.png) [@7596ff](https://zola.discourse.group/u/7596ff)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/month-names-from-month-number-discussion/228/1 "2019-10-29T15:55:24Z")

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With much ado, I decided on this snippet to extract the name of the month from the number of the month.

```
<h4>{{ "1000-" ~ month ~ "-10" | date(format="%B") }}</h4>

```

I give it a fake year and day, and only extract a month, as I am iterating on an array of posts grouped by month. This is fine, but there has to be a better way to do this. Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 8:52am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/month-names-from-month-number-discussion/228/2 "2019-10-30T08:52:34Z")

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You can put the names in the `extra` part of a config as an object/array and index on that with `month`. It’s not going to be built-in because chrono only supports English and I don’t really want to bundle a full i18n suite