Localized date formats?

Kirby 2 Solved ✅
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Hey, I’ve been trying to use localized date formats with PHP strftime() command.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php
But I can’t get it to work…
Any ideas on how to do that?
Or actually, is there another way to show dates in French?

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Add the following to your config.php (of course the french equivalent):

c::set('timezone','Europe/Berlin');
c::set('setlocale','de_DE.UTF8');
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE');

After that you can use in your templates:

<?php echo strftime('%d. %B %Y', $page->date()); ?>

I think Kirby 2.1 will have better support for this …

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Thanks @flokosiol.
It didn’t quite work for me.
Here’s what I’ve done in the end :

<?php setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR') ?>
<?php $uDate = $event->date('U','startDate') ?>
<?php echo strftime('%A %d %B', $uDate) ?>

It doesn’t look great but it works…

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c::set('setlocale') is invalid. It should be c::set('locale', 'fr_FR');

In 2.1 you can switch the date handler with c::set('date.handler', 'strftime')

afterwards the date method works like this:

<?php echo $page->date('%A %d %B') ?>

and should respect your locale settings.

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This looks a lot better!
Thanks @bastianallgeier

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Thanks for the hint, @bastianallgeier. I played around again with these settings and could now figure it out for me, too.

On my local machine (OS X) I just need to set

c::set('locale','de_DE');

On the server (CentOS) i need to set

c::set('locale','de_DE.UTF8');

Otherwise the german umlauts won’t be displayed correctly!
Thanks to the multi-environment setup this is easy to handle.

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