translate carbon date

I'm showing the date using carbon like this:


{{$p->date->toDayDateTimeString()}}

But I would like to show the date text in a different language "de".

So I changed:


    'locale' => 'en'                       to     'locale' => 'de'
     'fallback_locale' => 'en',     to     'fallback_locale' => 'de'

But don't works.

I also try to in the "AppServiceProvider" add in the boot method:


 public function boot()
    {
        Carbon::setLocale(env('LOCALE', 'de'));
    }

But also don't works.

Do you know why?

Cronix

8 years ago

Best Answer

Level 67

The only thing that should be using env() is your config files. If you cache the config, which you should do in production, it will ignore env totally and only pull values from config.

but for one thing, it's locale in your config (lowercase), but you're trying to reference it with LOCALE uppercase.

Carbon::setLocale(config('app.locale'));

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johnnw

8 years ago

Level 1

Thanks, but even with 'locale' instead of 'LOCALE' on the "AppServiceProvider" boot method don't translates. With that "Carbon::setLocale(config('app.locale'));" the 'de' needs to be put where?

skliche

8 years ago

Level 42

toDayDateTimeString() does not seem to be localized. The methods diffForHumans() and formatLocalized() are.

But diffForHumans() needs a call like Carbon::setLocale('de'); and formatLocalized() needs a call like setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE'); to work.

So you might want to save both the language and the language with the region in your config:

'locale' => env('APP_LOCALE', 'de'),
'localeWithRegion' => env('APP_LOCALE_REGION', 'de_DE'),

Then you can use ...

Carbon::setLocale(config('app.locale'));
setlocale(LC_TIME, config('app.localeWithRegion'));

... in AppServiceProvider.

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sword-fish

4 years ago

Level 9

you may also need to add 'translatedFormat' apart from Carbon::setLocale('...'); like so:

Carbon::setLocale('ro');
Carbon::parse($this->created_at)->translatedFormat('d F, Y')

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