Dates Displaying In Russian!?!

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doglegdesign Reply #1, 8 years, 6 months ago

Hi
One of my sites has suddenly decided to start displaying dates in Russian; just the dates, nothing else. Anyone got any ideas what could be causing it?

URL: http://northdevonwheelers.com/calendar.html

The dates are formatted in a snippet nothing particularly strange here:

[[+thedate:strtotime:date=`%B - %y`:isnot=`[[+oldmonth]]`:then=`
</div><div class="month">
<h3>[[+thedate:strtotime:date=`%B`]]</h3>
`:else=``]]
[[setPlaceholder? &placeholder=`oldmonth` &value=`[[+thedate:strtotime:date=`%B - %y`]]`]]
<p class="[[+type]]">
[[!If? &subject=`[[+link]]` &operator=`!empty` &then=`<a href="[[+link]]" target="_blank">` ]]
<strong>[[+thedate:strtotime:date=`%a %d-%b`]] : [[+title]]</strong> | [[+location]]
[[!If? &subject=`[[+link]]` &operator=`!empty` &then=`</a>` ]]
</p>

It's been working for about a year and just suddenly turned to this.
Help or suggestions very welcome!
Gareth

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Andy Tough Reply #2, 8 years, 6 months ago

Any changes made to the server configuration by the hosting company recently?

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doglegdesign Reply #3, 8 years, 6 months ago

That's what I thought but they don't think there is. It strange how it's just the dates.

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Andy Tough Reply #4, 8 years, 6 months ago

How do you enter the event dates into the system? Are they entered directly into the MODX manager, or are they called in from an outside source, like a Google calendar?

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doglegdesign Reply #5, 8 years, 6 months ago

Hi Andy
They are going in via MIGX the format is fine it seems to just be the way MODX is handling the output?!

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doglegdesign Reply #6, 8 years, 6 months ago

Right, I've come to the conclusion that it is definitely the date output modifier (sorry if I'm using the wrong term here) that is doing this - if I output the date as a MIGX raw value they are fine e.g. 2018-04-12 18:30:00

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doglegdesign Reply #7, 8 years, 6 months ago

I've managed to fix this but I'm not happy as I haven't got to the bottom of the issue!

I have forced the setlocale in a snippet at the top of my pages.

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
setlocale(LC_ALL, array('en_GB.UTF8','en_GB@euro','en_GB','english'));

Oh well, works now!

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Andy Tough Reply #8, 8 years, 6 months ago

Glad it is working again. There is a discussion about this here:
https://forums.modx.com/thread/86071/locales-and-strtotime
Bobs answer 6 might be the solution?
Doesn't explain why it suddenly changed though.

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doglegdesign Reply #9, 8 years, 6 months ago

Hi Andy
Thanks for your help/input on this - I have just got rid of 'my' fix as I have set the locale system setting to 'en_GB' and that works fine; there was no value in here before so I guess it was defaulting to Russian - why it would default to Russian is beyond me!
Gareth

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Andy Tough Reply #10, 8 years, 6 months ago

I suspect the hosting company may have had a part to play in it! Glad it is sorted.

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