Parsing localized date strings in PHP

Question

I have some code (it\'s part of a wordpress plugin) which takes a text string, and the format specifier given to date(), and attempts to parse it into an array containing ho

Answer 1

Try to set the locale to Russian as hinted in the manual:

Month and weekday names and other language dependent strings respect the current locale set with setlocale() (LC_TIME).

Answer 2

I see that the question is already answered but none of the solutions provided worked for me.

This is my solution:

if(!preg_match('/^en_US/', $locale)){

    $months_short = array('jan' => t('jan'), 'feb' => t('feb'), 'mar' => t('mar'), 'apr' => t('apr'),
            'may' => t('may'), 'jun' => t('giu'), 'jul' => t('lug'), 'aug' => t('ago'),
            'sep' => t('set'), 'oct' => t('ott'), 'nov' => t('nov'), 'dec' => t('dec'));

    foreach ($months_short as $month_short => $month_short_translated) {
        $date = preg_replace('/'.$month_short_translated.'/', $month_short, strtolower($date));
    }

}

$pieces = date_parse_from_format($format,$date);

if($pieces && $pieces['error_count'] == 0 && checkdate($pieces['month'], $pieces['day'], $pieces['year'])){

    return date('Y-m-d', mktime(0,0,0,$pieces['month'],$pieces['day'],$pieces['year'])); 

}

Where t() returns the translated abbreviation for the month.

Probably not the best solution ever (because it fails if there is no valid translation) but it works for my case.

Answer 3

you could try take a locale parameter and call locale_set_default($locale) before doing the date parsing.

$originalLocale = locale_get_default();
$locale ? $locale : $originalLocale;
locale_set_default(locale);

// date parsing code

locale_set_default($originalLocale);

I haven't testing this but it's work a try. FYI, I believe the locale string for Russian is "ru-Latn"