Re: [Phpwiki-talk] date output

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Jeff Dairiki schrieb:
> 'de_GE' (probably a typo?) is incorrect, I think.  Should be 'de_DE'?

oh yes.

> Datapoint: I've tested 'de_DE' and 'de_AT', and 'german' on four Linux
> systems. They all seem to work (at least they do something) on all of them.
> The systems were:
>       RedHat 7.0, glibc 2.2
>       RedHat 6.2, glibc-2.1
>       RedHat 5.2, glibc-2.1
>       Debian 2.2?, glibc 2.1
> 
> Plain 'de' does not work on any of those systems.  I though it should,
> but perhaps I'm wrong.
> 
> (A simple way to test, at least on unix systems, is from the command
> line, e.g.:)
> 
>  LANG=de_DE date "+%x"

on bash only. that's fine, thanks!

Suse v?? glibc-2.1
 
$LANG=de_AT date "+%x %X" 
2001-03-15 02:05:44
$LANG=de_DE date "+%x %X"  
15.03.2001 02:05:55
$LANG=de date "+%x %X"   
03/15/01 02:06:00
$LANG=german date "+%x %X"  
15.03.2001 02:06:04
$LANG=deutsch date "+%x %X"      
15.03.2001 02:06:11

strange, but okay for me. austrians seem to favor standards :)

> Which should print the date in the locale-specific format.
> 
> That said, even if you can't find the correct locale setting, does
> switching from date() to strftime() break anything?  With date()
> you're stuck with English days/months no matter what --- with strftime()
> you have a chance of getting dates in your native language.

everything works okay. 
I tested it in my first php project ever (a movie database) and 
there my problems were probably just my mistake.
-- 
Reini Urban
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