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Full Month Names: avoid relying on the operating system's locale for translation

    • Closed Issue created by bgm @bgm

    This kind of question comes up from time to time:
    https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/35468/date-in-english-even-when-page-is-set-to-french/40170

    "The date is always uses English month and day names regardless of the interface language. How do I fix this?"

    The main issue is because currently translating the month name relies on the operating system. The non-English locale must be enabled so that strftime outputs the correct month name (ex: "janvier" not "January").

    Most people somewhat control their hosting environment, and can enable it once they know how, but since the default CiviCRM date format uses %B (full month name), it gives a bad first impression. Considering we already have those strings in Transifex, it would be easy to just hardcode the list of months and translate using 'ts'.

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