Setlocale for non multilanguage sites

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
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Earlier in days I could set my locale in the config file like this
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.utf8', 'de_DE', 'de', 'ge');
But now this don’t seam to work… I’m not sure if it is since kirby 3.1 or even earlier.

How can I set my language to the preferred locale, so with 'date.handler' => 'strftime' the dates are in the right language?

Thanks for your help.

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You can set it in your index.php

3

Thanks, but this doesn’t solve it either.

The language seems to be set correct. but my dates are not translated. Some times this didn’t work locally, but on the production server I hadn’t any problems. Also the locale are installed on my system.

4

Is the strftime datehandler enabled in your config?

5

Yes like so: 'date.handler' => 'strftime'

6

I think you need to set them in your languages: https://getkirby.com/docs/guide/languages/introduction#adding-languages

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@bvdputte That doesn’t make sense for a single language website, though.

@jonathanhess I just checked the locale setting in config. There used to be a bug but it was supposed to be fixed.

Hm… I’ll check myself.

Edit: setting the locale in config.php works for me in a 3.1.0 Starterkit.

<?php

return [
    'debug' => true,
    'date.handler' => 'strftime',
    'locale' => 'de_DE.UTF-8',
];
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Thanks @texnixe. Didn’t know you could do it the “kirby” way. I just did it the php-way… but yes, with

return [
    'locale' => 'de_DE.UTF-8',
];

it works great. Thanks again.

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Would be great, if this could be added to the docs, @texnixe.
Maybe here: date | Kirby CMS

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With the intl date handler, you don’t need the locale anymore. Strftime is deprecated in PHP 8.1 and therefore shouldn’t be used anymore.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

Note that the intl date handler had a bug, so you need to update to Kirby 3.8.x