Localize current time in PHP

Question

Trying to display current time with PHP (using this):

$date = date(\'m/d/Y h:i:s a\', time());                      
echo $date;

As simple

Answer 1

If you need a more simple way than Zend_Date and IntlDateFormatter try the standard strftime function in php. Here's the stuff I did to get it up and running with the Russian language running php 5.3 on Ubuntu (Russian locale was not installed).

To install locale

1. cd /usr/share/locales
2. sudo ./install-language_pack ru_RU
3. sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
4. Restart Apache

Next, use the following php snippet:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'ru_RU.UTF-8');
echo strftime('%A', time());

Should output today's day of the week.