Dates localization

lukoie

How do i translate month names?

oliverraduner

I would be very interested in this, too!

Most likely I found the reason, why you cannot localize Months & Days (yet): http://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/commit/ce6c2600a98ed2a8571424edc3c74fb42e1891ed#commitcomment-98474

lukoie

do you think it is possible to make a small patched file for the time being?
or manually edit necessary lines?

lukoie

as i understand it gets it from the mysql, right?

S

Windows:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php

On Windows, setlocale(LC_ALL, '') sets the locale names from the system's regional/language settings (accessible via Control Panel).

// Test on Linux
locale -a

no_NO.UTF-8
pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl_PL.UTF-8
pt_BR.ISO8859-1
pt_BR.UTF-8
....

=>
setlocale($LocaleName. '.'. $Encoding);

// php script
$x[] = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'sk_SK'); //

$CurrentLocale = Gdn::Config('Garden.Locale', 'en-CA');
setlocale(LC_ALL, str_replace('-', '_', $CurrentLocale));

Fail.

oliverraduner

@lukoie wrote:

do you think it is possible to make a small patched file for the time being?

Yes it would be possible. But as this is a Core function of Vanilla, I think the developers should address it properly.

lukoie

@S:
huh?

TiGR

I think the best solution would be to make gdn::Format->Date overridable as many other functions, such as Plural, since setting proper locale does not do the job for some languages (it would be better to format text in different way). For instance, in russian locale-formatted string looks like, say, "Июнь 24", while proper way is "24 июня".

S

Gdn_Format::Date() uses strftime() which can display month in genitive case. Use token %B. However, I think that anyway need to make overridable Format::Date() function, +1 @TiGR

http://vanillaforums.org/blog/translation-improvements-in-vanilla-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2238

TiGR

@S token %B does not return month in genitive case on various server configurations (quite common problem, btw, AFAIK it works better only on FreeBSD servers, all linux servers return nominative form).

Here is more information about various locale-related bugs in PHP: http://www.onphp5.com/article/22

S

@TiGR. Therefore, I have FreeBSD
It is the only thing to do - modify your theme

Gdn_Format::Date($Comment->DateInserted) -> 
Gdn_Format::To($Comment->DateInserted, 'CustomFormatMethod')

TiGR

The problem is that Gdn_Format::Date() calls are located not only in theme.

P.S: We can't add FreeBSD as a requirement for Vanilla, right? Then we need function override.

oliverraduner

At this point I want throw in the initial question to the discussion

How do i translate month names?

phreak

Hi all,

I'm interested as well in the date change issue. Can someone hep translate "S"'s idea into something that easier to understand and implement for the time beeing?

Thanx

Tim

We've made some changes in RC3 that make our calls to setlocale() more sensible. In theory, this should clear up a lot of these issues.

TiGR

@Tim, I don't see any changes that could solve the problem discussed (on current git). What do you mean exactly?

binhdo

I would be eagerly interested in a simple answer to the initial question.
Furthermore: is there a setting to change date and time format?

smac

good question. how can I change this? time and date ...
Does anyone have an idea?

vefasizalem

Please help! Are there any solution?

Tudor

Sorry to resurrect an old discussion, but... Is it possible to have the month names translated somehow?

Todd

I don't believe so at this time. We'll take a pull request though.