How to get the shortened names of Weekdays and months

[HolgerGottChristensen]

I am trying to make a calendar widget, and I need to get the names of the weekdays and months for the current locale. Currently my names are hard-coded.

Is it possible to get 2 letter abbreviations for the 7 weekdays for some locale?
Is it possible to get the month names in different long and shortened forms using ICU4x?

[sffc]

You can access this information using one of two experimental APIs:

1. https://unicode-org.github.io/icu4x/rustdoc/icu_datetime/options/components/index.html -- request component weekday with Text::Short
2. https://unicode-org.github.io/icu4x/rustdoc/icu_datetime/neo_pattern/struct.DateTimePattern.html -- create a pattern for a standalone weekday or month name field, which you can find in the DateTime field table, such as LLLL and ccc

Note that option 1 is released on crates.io but option 2 is newer code. When we have semantic skeleta (#1317) that will be another option to access this data.

[HolgerGottChristensen]

Thank you very much. Just to be sure, I need to create a set of options for a formatter that specifies i only want the weekdays in the format and then I need to give it 7 consecutive days and then I can use the results?