Pulse4 - blog date format support for other languages

[Juerg]

Generally speaking it’s about support for date formats used in Pulse for foreign languages (other than english).

To be more specific in my case:
Is there a way to format a blog date in Pulse V4 for German? e.g. 24. Oct. 2017 (10-24-2017) will be displayed as 24. Okt. 2017?

[pulsecms]

Line 47 in the config.php:

$date_format = "M j, Y"; // More: https://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

But if you want to add German dates you might need to add something like:

$newLocale = setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE', 'de_DE.UTF-8');

[Juerg]

I’ve added the line in config.php - but the magic doesn’t happen. Anything else I can try?

[Juerg]

@pulsecms Any update on that?

[Oliver]

Hi Juerg,

Here is my way of using German month names with setlocale.
($newLocale = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE', 'de_DE.UTF-8');

1. Go to config.php and change the date format variable to $date_format = "%d. %B %Y";
   or whatever you like from http://php.net/manual/de/function.strftime.php

2. Go to inc/tags/blog.php and change the date parameter to strftime

Line 48 and 121 from

$date = date($date_format, $date_mk);
to
$date = strftime($date_format, $date_mk);

[pulsecms]

Excellent tutorial @Oliver - thanks for adding this here

[Juerg]

Thanks, Oliver for taking the time to explain. That’s what I was looking for. Worked like a charm .