Answered Date / Time in a different language to English

I haven't experienced this problem in the past as I haven't had the need to create a website with this function.

After building a site and thinking it's finished I've had some feedback and been asked why the date is written in English and not in the language required - in this case German

The feedback was:
It should be rendered as: Freitag, Juni 08, 2013 but is Friday, June 08, 2013

I am using Ditto to render an overview of news posts (including the date) and on the post page I am using the "DateTime" snippet.

I have the date showing on both pages.

Ditto call: (Overview Page)

DateTime call: (Post Page)


Does anyone know why this is happening ?
Anyone have a solution to fix this ?

All help / ideas welcome

Thanks.

@ sottwell

Thanks for the help.

I have added:

To both snippet files and they now both output as expected.

Be careful about which LC_ parameter you use. Using LC_ALL can have unexpected results. If all you want is to localize date/time, you can use LC_TIME.

See the comment for the PHP setlocale documentation http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php#25041

Quote from: sottwell at Nov 10, 2013, 12:57 PM

If all you want is to localize date/time, you can use LC_TIME

Thanks - have modified as such