Convert English date in French language

Question

I get a $date from an API in UTC format like 2021-11-13T14:00:14Z.

So using php I convert it to : 13 November 2021

$date = strftime(date('d F Y', strtotime($date);

So now I want to translate it in French.

I am working on local with on macbook pro using MAMP.

My html code setting is :

<html lang="fr">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

I even forced Local Time to :

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fr', 'fr_FR', 'fr_FR@euro', 'fr_FR.utf8', 'fr-FR', 'fra'); date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');

But the date remain in english !

Thanks in advance for your help

The first argument to `strftime()` must be a format string. Why are you giving it a date that's already formatted using `date('d F Y')?` — Barmar, Nov 13 '21 at 07:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 13 '21 at 07:55

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You're not calling strftime() correctly. The first argument must be a format string. date() returns an already-formatted date, and it doesn't use locales. This works for me:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fr', 'fr_FR', 'fr_FR@euro', 'fr_FR.utf8', 'fr-FR', 'fra');
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');
$date = "2021-11-13T14:00:14Z";
echo strftime('%d %B %Y', strtotime($date));

answered Nov 13 '21 at 07:55

Barmar

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Hi @Barmar don't help still in English ! – Eric BUTTIGIEG Nov 13 '21 at 08:13
Maybe you don't have the French locale installed on your server? Don't ask me how to check that or fix it, I don't know. – Barmar Nov 13 '21 at 08:14
I think it come from MAMP, this I can do – Eric BUTTIGIEG Nov 13 '21 at 08:15
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67927006/setlocale-not-working-on-localhost-using-mamp-on-macos – Eric BUTTIGIEG Nov 13 '21 at 08:22
`strftime()` is deprecated since PHP 8.1. Maybe suggest OP for `IntlDateFormatter` class instead? And about `setlocale()`, PHP have [strange supported](https://stackoverflow.com/a/70312801/128761) for this on different versions. – vee Dec 12 '21 at 17:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 14 '21 at 12:32

Solutions based on the IntlDateFormatter class work independently of the local installations of the server. Example as already written in the comment here. When using the class dt, which uses the IntlDateFormatter class, the same format characters can be used for the method formatL as for DateTime::format.

$dt = dt::create('2021-11-13T14:00:14Z');

//UTC -> localTime "2021-11-13 15:00:14"
$dt->setTimeZone('Europe/Paris');  

echo $dt->formatL('l d F Y H:i','fr');
// samedi 13 novembre 2021 15:00

echo $dt->formatL('l d F Y H:i','de');
// Samstag 13 November 2021 15:00

The date string contains the "Z" time zone, which corresponds to UTC. A new time zone can be set with setTimeZone() to get the local time. If the UTC time (here 14:00) is to be displayed, this line must be omitted. The format method (without L) still exists. This method delivers the result as usual in English.

Convert English date in French language

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