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Re: How to change date notation to other (local) language

flipflop1974 — Oct 12, 2017, 09:08 AM

Quote from: mdeuerlein at Aug 01, 2015, 07:55 PM

For me with MODX 2.3.5-pl

in "system settings > core > locale"
setting the value to "de_DE"

works fine for german language settings with strftime()

For me as well on version 2.5.8

Re: How to change date notation to other (local) language

mdeuerlein — Aug 01, 2015, 07:55 PM

For me with MODX 2.3.5-pl

in "system settings > core > locale"
setting the value to "de_DE"

works fine for german language settings with strftime()

Re: How to change date notation to other (local) language

suikerzout — Jun 23, 2015, 03:44 AM

I encoutered similar problems, and fixed it by setting the locale through a custom gateway plugin that was being used:

$eventName = $modx->event->name;
if($modx->context->get('key') == 'mgr' || $eventName != 'OnHandleRequest') { return ''; }

$hostname = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
switch($hostname) {
    case 'mywebsite.de':
        $modx->switchContext('deutsch');
        setlocale(LC_ALL,$modx->context->getOption('locale', null, 'default'));
    break;
}

I have no idea why the context setting is not being picked up in the first place, but adding this line fixed it for me..

Re: How to change date notation to other (local) language

johnxx — Feb 08, 2015, 12:45 PM

For me with MODX 2.3.3

locale in system settings > doesn't work
locale in context settings > doesn't work

Snippet :

context->getOption('locale', null, 'default');
setlocale(LC_ALL,$locale.'.UTF-8');

works fine ([[!setlocale]] call in header)

Re: How to change date notation to other (local) language

the_spy15 — Dec 20, 2014, 12:51 PM

Why not using the lexicon?

lexicon->load('core:default');

$month = strtolower(date('F', strtotime($date) ));
$day = strtolower(date('l', strtotime($date) ));


$dy = date("N", strtotime($date));


$fullday = $modx->lexicon($day); //Monday in current language

$month = $modx->lexicon($month);//May in current language
  
$day = date("d", strtotime($date)); // 13

$year = date("Y", strtotime($date)); // 2014
  


return $fullday.', '.$day.'. '.$month.' '.$year;

Re: How to change date notation to other (local) language

aximotorr — Sep 22, 2014, 01:51 PM

@tomek Thank you very much for this snipet. It is great solution for any language.

"Puno ti hvala, ovo je super stvar."

Re: How to change date notation to other (local) language

Magnatron — Jul 14, 2014, 06:18 AM

If you find the system setting "Locale" dosn't work for you, you might want to try to add the character encoding to it.

Setting the system setting to

nl_NL

did not work for a recent project (LEMP) but

nl_NL.UTF-8

did the trick

Re: How to change date notation to other (local) language

tomek — Mar 12, 2014, 08:14 AM

Quote from: BobRay at Sep 30, 2013, 09:34 AM

FYI: date() doesn't respect the locale setting -- strftime() does. Using strftime() will give you the language-appropriate month and day names.

You can always call setlocale() just before calling strftime().

“When you know better you do better.”
P.S. Thanks for tip.

Re: How to change date notation to other (local) language

vytukas — Mar 12, 2014, 08:00 AM

And for good measure, here's a Lithuanian version:

 "sausio",		//January
                2 => "vasario",		//February
                3 => "kovo",		//March
                4 => "balandžio",	//April
                5 => "gegužės",		//May
                6 => "birželio",	//Jun
                7 => "liepos",		//July
                8 => "rugpjūčio",	//August
                9 => "rugsėjo",		//September
                10=> "spalio",		//October
                11=> "lapkričio",	//November
                12=> "gruodžio");	//December
   
$mj = date("n", strtotime($date));
   
// days in Lithuanian
$days = array(1 => "pirmadienis", // Monday
            2 => "antradienis",      //Thuesday
            3 => "trečiadienis",     //Wensday
            4 => "ketvirtadienis",    //Thursday
            5 => "penktadienis",        // Friday
            6 => "šeštadienis",       //Saturday
            7 => "sekmadienis");   //Sunday
   
$dy = date("N", strtotime($date));
   
//Get vars
$fullday = $days[$dy]; // For example Monday
$month = $months[$mj]; // For example January
$day = date("d", strtotime($date)); //For example 28
$year = date("Y", strtotime($date));// For example 2012
   
//display date format example:
//2014 m. kovo 11 d.
 
return $year.' m. '.$month.' '.$day.' d. ';

Re: How to change date notation to other (local) language

BobRay — Sep 30, 2013, 04:34 AM

FYI: date() doesn't respect the locale setting -- strftime() does. Using strftime() will give you the language-appropriate month and day names.

You can always call setlocale() just before calling strftime().