Re: [Phpwiki-talk] date output

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

In message <3AA...@x-...>,Reini Urban writes:
>> Is there a reason we shouldn't switch to using
>> strftime rather than date everywhere?
>> 
>> >setlocale("LC_TIME", "german");
>
>yes, there is. 
>I couldn't figure out which locale on which platform is best, or just works. 
>at least for german :)

Uh oh.  I was afraid of that.

>LC_TYPE "german" works for me on win2000 and linux now, 
>but the recommended settings ("de_GE" or "de_AT") do not work as they should.
>  (austrians need different sublocales for weekday and month names for
>example)

'de_GE' (probably a typo?) is incorrect, I think.  Should be 'de_DE'?

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"

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.

Jeff