Python month/day names in other language

Question

Debian is set to en_US but I need day/month in German.

So how can I get %a to output Do instead of Thu?

draw.text((0,34), time.strftime("%a %d.%m.%Y"), font=font)

Please check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/985505/locale-date-formatting-in-python. — jacekbj, May 24 '18 at 07:20

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '18 at 07:49

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Linux

>>> import datetime
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'de_DE.UTF-8')
'de_DE.UTF-8'
>>> d = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> d.strftime("%a %d.%m.%Y")
'Do 24.05.2018'
>>>

answered May 24 '18 at 07:49

Rolf of Saxony

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 24 '18 at 07:28

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You can use this code below and then just continue to use strftime:

import locale
# for German locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, "de_DE")

If you use windows, syntax change to:

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'deu_deu')

answered May 24 '18 at 07:28

A. Cloete

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Python month/day names in other language

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