Level 2
Hi
Do you have the nl_NL locale installed? Try locale -a in the console and see the installed locales.
See if this helps: http://askubuntu.com/questions/76013/how-do-i-add-locale-to-ubuntu-server
Cheers
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Apr 23, 2015
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Level 5
Date localization
Hello,
I've read several posts for getting the localization of dates correctly, but none seems to be working for me. So I'm asking again, how will I be able to display dates in my native language (Dutch in this case)? I'm running homestead.
What have I already tried:
- I installed the dutch language as mentioned in this post: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/requests/change-date-language
- I changed my default locale in
/etc/default/locale, as seen from this post https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/carbon-localized-date - I set the locale in
app.phptonl. - I put this in my controller:
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'nl_NL.utf8');.
My whole code:
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'nl_NL.utf8');
var_dump(Carbon::now()->format('l jS \\of F Y h:i:s A'));
var_dump(Carbon::now()->formatLocalized('l jS \\of F Y h:i:s A'));
This outputs:
string 'Thursday 23rd of April 2015 10:14:30 AM' (length=39)
string 'l jS \of F Y h:i:s A' (length=20)
I also tried this on top of my routes.php file.
Route::filter('SetLocaleFilter', function()
{
$locale = "nl";
setlocale(LC_ALL, strtolower($locale) . "_" . strtoupper($locale) . ".utf8");
});
I just don't understand it!
Level 5
@rsdev000, yes, first thing I did (see my first point).
Level 3
I use this : https://github.com/jenssegers/laravel-date 16 Apr 2015 - laravel-date - A library to help you work with dates in multiple languages, based on Carbon.
Level 2
Hi
It's working ok for me on homestead.
Installed the nl_NL locale and checked the available locales
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'nl_NL.utf8');
var_dump(\Carbon\Carbon::now()->addMonth()->formatLocalized('%d %B %Y'));
Result
string '23 mei 2015' (length=11)
Cheers
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Level 5
@rsdev000, Probably I wrongly formatted my string. Doing this is working perfectly now:
var_dump(\Carbon\Carbon::now()->formatLocalized('%d %B %Y'));
// string '23 april 2015' (length=13)
I know it's Dutch because of the lowercase month!
What would be the right place to put
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'nl_NL.utf8');
Thanks!
Level 2
Hi
I would say that the right place is a middleware.
Cheers
Level 49
Please be aware that some servers need the following setlocale syntax:
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'nl_NL.UTF-8');
or for all locales at once
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL.UTF-8');
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