Parse Months In Russian

Question

The have the following lines (the months are in Russian):

"Ноябрь 20 2012"
"Декабрь 19 2012"
"Сентябрь 12 2012"
"Июнь 5 2012"
"Август 2 2012"

I want to convert them to the following format:

The problem, of course, is that the month is in Russian, so what I've tried doesn't work.

$date = "Ноябрь 20 2012";
print_r(date_parse_from_format("F j Y", $date));

How can I parse dates with Russian months?

Did you try `str_replace` the russian names with pre-made English names? — Peon, Nov 20 '12 at 14:36
I am not sure I fully understand the question, but you might want to look into [strftime](http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php), [strtotime](http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php), [setlocale](http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php), and [str_replace](http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php). Together, I think they should be able to do the trick. — ACJ, Nov 20 '12 at 14:40

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 05 '18 at 13:23

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You can do a workaround like this:

$ru_month = array( 'Январь', 'Февраль', 'Март', 'Апрель', 'Май', 'Июнь', 'Июль', 'Август', 'Сентябрь', 'Октябрь', 'Ноябрь', 'Декабрь' );
$en_month = array( 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December' );

print_r(date_parse_from_format("F j Y", str_replace($ru_month, $en_month, $date)));

PS: as others stated, there is a direct method, here is a duplicate of your question.

edited Oct 05 '18 at 13:23

MorganFreeFarm

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answered Nov 20 '12 at 14:41

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But it's October, not Oktober :)) – Georgy Liparteliani Aug 18 '14 at 19:40
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Also why did you forget about april... :'( – Georgy Liparteliani Aug 18 '14 at 19:56
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So, finally it would be: $ru_month = array( 'Январь', 'Февраль', 'Март', 'Апрель', 'Май', 'Июнь', 'Июль', 'Август', 'Сентябрь', 'Октябрь', 'Ноябрь', 'Декабрь' ); $en_month = array( 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December' ); – BasTaller Sep 05 '14 at 09:21

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 20 '12 at 14:46

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first tell php to use your locale settings,

setlocale( LC_TIME, 'ru_RU', 'russian' );

then try to parse the string.

$date = "Ноябрь 20 2012";
print_r( date_parse_from_format("F j Y", $date) );

answered Nov 20 '12 at 14:46

ncank

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local settings have already been configured to "russian", I just received the Russian line, but thanks for the reply :) – Artem Nov 20 '12 at 20:12

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 20 '12 at 14:39

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Use setlocale() and strftime() for non-english dates

answered Nov 20 '12 at 14:39

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Parse Months In Russian

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