how do i change language of dates?

crash_D.

Hi, I have a Russian version of Vanilla. It is all in Russian, except some little phrases/words. The question is, how do i translate the following into russian:

1. dates; (eg. change Oct 5th to Окт 5)
2. in the extended search, the word "simple" to "простой"

i think that's all, but im not sure yet...

thanks in advance

bjrn

The date words are not something you can change in Vanilla, it's something you'll have to set in either your PHP or web server settings, I think. One way you can change it in vanilla is to not use words, but instead use a format with only numbers, for instance 2006-10-22 or similar. To do that you'll have to open the file called definitions.php in languages/Russian (since you're using the Russian language). Search for OldPostDateFormatCode. It'll probably say 'M jS Y', change that to 'j M Y'. If you want some other formatting, check out the documentation for php's date() function.

As for the simple thing, it seems like that has been left out of the Russian translation, in the same definitions.php file, add this: $Context->Dictionary['Simple'] = 'простой';

NickE

You could alternately add a call to str_replace after the date is created which replaces all the english months with russian ones. Eg. replace line return date($Context->GetDefinition('OldPostDateFormatCode'), $Time); in the TimeDiff function (file library/Framework/Framework.Functions.php) with return str_replace( array('Jan', 'Feb', etc...), array('russian equivelent of jan', 'of feb', etc...), date($Context->GetDefinition('OldPostDateFormatCode'), $Time) );

crash_D.

thanks guys.. i think i will stick to the first option... but still thanks, SirNot.. i will keep that in mind

i have also updated the Russian (with extensions) add-on (my only add-on

thanks again

Max_B

Also, have a look at strftime() function which is able to output date according to the locale set-up with setlocale().

ruthverena

thx may_b my solution with strftime() and setlocale() for a German date format: go to library/Framework/Framework.Functions.php 1) add setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE'); //change de_DE to your language at the top of the file 2)replace the line (near line 810) return date($Context->GetDefinition('OldPostDateFormatCode'), $Time); with return strftime("%d.%m.%y"); // see http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php for your individual format

phreak

Hi ruthverena, I tried your solution but it gives every posting just the date of today ? Did you use another solution or does anyne know one? Thanx a lot p*

fmimoso

Try it like this:

1) Add
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'pt_PT.UTF-8@UTF-8'); //change pt_PT to your language
at the top of file
languages/yourlanguage/definitions.php

2) Change in that file
$Context->Dictionary['OldPostDateFormatCode'] = 'M jS Y';
to
$Context->Dictionary['OldPostDateFormatCode'] = '%e %B %G'; // see the formatting here http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

2) Replace the line (near line 810)
return date($Context->GetDefinition('OldPostDateFormatCode'), $Time);
with
return strftime($Context->GetDefinition('OldPostDateFormatCode'), $Time);

That's it.