Print current date in English language

Question

In Odoo, I'd like to print current date in English in QWeb report:

<span t-esc="datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%d %B %Y')"/>

The expected behavior is : 20 January 2019

The current behavior is: 20 janvier 2019

What should I do to display the month in English instead of the system language (French)?

Is French your system Locale? – Oren_C Jan 20 '19 at 13:41 — Oren_C, Jan 20 '19 at 13:41
@Oren_C Yes, my system is in french – rma_bjr Jan 20 '19 at 13:43 — rma_bjr, Jan 20 '19 at 13:43
Always in English or just for some partners? – Kenly Jan 21 '19 at 08:28 — Kenly, Jan 21 '19 at 08:28

Kannappan Sirchabesan · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-20T20:11:37.017

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try using LOCALE

import locale 

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

print(datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%d %B %Y'))

edited Jan 20 '19 at 20:11

answered Jan 20 '19 at 13:43

Thanks,There is a way to add this directly in, qweb report? – rma_bjr Jan 20 '19 at 13:51
you could try this – Kannappan Sirchabesan Jan 20 '19 at 13:53
did that answer help? – Kannappan Sirchabesan Jan 20 '19 at 14:04
Thanks, this doesn't work, this is not a correct syntax o, can you give a python function to show current date in english? – rma_bjr Jan 20 '19 at 20:09
the current date in english has the same command as you had provided. Only the locale needs to be changed as provided in the first two lines of my answer – Kannappan Sirchabesan Jan 20 '19 at 20:12
is it a windows machine? can you try locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'english') – Kannappan Sirchabesan Jan 20 '19 at 20:23
Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_month.py", line 4, in locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US') File "/usr/lib/python3.6/locale.py", line 598, in setlocale return _setlocale(category, locale) locale.Error: unsupported locale setting – rma_bjr Jan 20 '19 at 20:38
I guess you are on a linux machine. try en_US.utf-8 instead of en_US – Kannappan Sirchabesan Jan 20 '19 at 20:39

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