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+#
+#  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+#  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+#  distributed with this work for additional information
+#  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+#  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+#  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+#  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+#  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+#  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+#  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+#  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#  under the License.
+#
+
+from faker import Faker
+from babel.dates import format_date
+import random
+from datetime import datetime
+
+fake = Faker()
+
+# TOOD: If possible set date range on Faker
+
+FORMATS = ['short',
+           'medium',
+           'long',
+           'dd MMM YYY',
+           'dd MMM',
+           'dd, MMM YYY',
+           'dd, MMM',
+           'd MMM YYY',
+           'd MMM',
+           'd MMMM YYY',
+           'MMMM YYY',
+           'd MMMM, YYY',
+           'd MMM, YYY',
+           'd MM YY',
+           'd MMMM YYY',
+           'MMMM d YYY',
+           'MMMM YYY',
+           'MMM YYY',
+           'MMMM d, YYY',
+           'dd.MM.YY',
+           'dd.MM',
+           'full',
+           'full',
+           'full',
+           'full',
+           'full',
+           'full',
+           'full',
+           'full',
+           'full',
+           'full']
+
+# TODO: maybe avoid duplicates, output dates also for other locales such as german, and french ...
+
+with open('date_dev_deu.txt', 'w', encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    for i in range(2000):
+        dt = fake.date_time_ad(start_datetime=datetime(1900, 1, 1))
+
+        format = random.choice(FORMATS)
+        source_date = format_date(dt, format=format,  locale='de_DE')
+        target_date = format_date(dt, format='YYYYMMdd',  locale='en_US')
+
+        if "short" not in format \
+                and "medium" not in format \
+                and "long" not in format \
+                and "full" not in format :
+
+            if "Y" not in format:
+                target_date = "0000" + target_date[4:]
+
+            if "d" not in format:
+                target_date = target_date[:6] + "00"
+
+
+        f.write(target_date + '\t' + source_date + '\n')
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