I'm brazilian and there's a wordpress plugin that uses
" . date("d F Y (H:i)",$date) . "
Output: 16 January 2013 (00:54)
But it should be 16 Janeiro 2013 (00:54), in portuguese... How can I change it?
PS: I think maybe the date is set by an external file provided by the plugin creator :p I'm not sure though
WordPress has date_i18n to retrieve the date in localized format, based on timestamp.
Try:
echo date_i18n("d F Y (H:i)",$date) ;
For the french language I use this
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fra');
echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y",time());
For in portuguese
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ptg'); //
echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y",time());
see Language Strings Country/Region Strings.
The documentation for date
already answers this:
To format dates in other languages, you should use the setlocale() and
strftime() functions instead of date().
And strftime
says that the way to do what is by using setlocale
:
Format the time and/or date according to locale settings. Month and
weekday names and other language-dependent strings respect the current
locale set with setlocale().
That said, the C locale-aware functions do not provide sufficient functionality for languages that have cases. In such situations (i.e. most of the time) you need to roll your own.