Hi, on a multi-language site (German/English/French) I output a date like this: <?= strftime("%B %Y", $entry->date()->toDate()) ?> On my local machine this translates the month name in all languages. On the server however the month name is correctly translated in French, while it displays the En…

Looked at the source code… Yes, the kirby implementation doesn’t seem to use the locale to format dates… So I guess IntlDateFormatter falls back to the process locale (like strftime does), and that is probably why it’s random… (the process can only be in 1 language, therefore if your server uses the…

strftime relies on the OS level locale settings and language packs. Looks like your server doesn’t have the German language packs installed. Besides this, I’d recommend against the use of strftime as it has been deprecated as of PHP 8.1. The good news is that you can use the IntlDateFormatter class…

Thank you for your reply and detailed explanation, glad I could learn something! I updated Kirby, applied the changes, and everything worked fine on my local machine. On the server though it had the effect that now also in French it shows the English month names, where before it would translate them…

See 'intl' date handler outputs random translation on multilanguage site · Issue #4304 · getkirby/kirby · GitHub

Strange, seems to work, at least sometimes: French: “mai” [image] German: “Mai” [image] English: “May” [image]

Yes, it sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t.

Sorry I wasn’t clear: The screen shots show an external booking widget that is injected into the header, this has nothing to do with kirby. The month names I mean are below in the main area, the categories in the event calendar.

[image] This looks promising :slight_smile:

Yes, I already applied your fix, it works like a charm. Just had to replace $kirby with kirby(). Thank you very much for the quick and detailed help!

Problem translating month names

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Strange, seems to work, at least sometimes:
French: “mai”

German: “Mai”

English: “May”

Class "IntlDateFormatter" not found debug error on staging, but locally all is fine

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Problem translating month names

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