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Display a date in different locales
Display a language/locale friendly version of New Year's Day for 2009 for several languages/locales. E.g. for languages English, French, German, Italian, Dutch the output might be something like:
Thursday, January 1, 2009
jeudi 1 janvier 2009
giovedì 1 gennaio 2009
Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009
donderdag 1 januari 2009
(Indicate in comments where possible if any language specific or operating system configuration needs to be in place.)
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
jeudi 1 janvier 2009
giovedì 1 gennaio 2009
Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009
donderdag 1 januari 2009
(Indicate in comments where possible if any language specific or operating system configuration needs to be in place.)
/* Be aware of that you need to have the locales installed */
setlocale(LC_TIME, "en_US");
echo strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y%n"); // %n = \n in strftime()
setlocale(LC_TIME, "fr_FR"); // French
echo strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y%n");
setlocale(LC_TIME, "de_DE"); // German
echo strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y%n");
setlocale(LC_TIME, "it_IT"); // Italian
echo strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y%n");
setlocale(LC_TIME, "nl_NL", "nld_nld"); // Dutch; Unix and Windows
echo strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y%n");
setlocale(LC_TIME, "en_US");
echo strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y%n"); // %n = \n in strftime()
setlocale(LC_TIME, "fr_FR"); // French
echo strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y%n");
setlocale(LC_TIME, "de_DE"); // German
echo strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y%n");
setlocale(LC_TIME, "it_IT"); // Italian
echo strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y%n");
setlocale(LC_TIME, "nl_NL", "nld_nld"); // Dutch; Unix and Windows
echo strftime("%A, %B %e, %Y%n");
$locales = array("en_US", "fr_FR", "de_DE", "nl_NL", "it_IT");
foreach ($locales as $locale) {
setlocale(LC_TIME, $locale);
echo strftime("%A, %B %d %Y%n");
}
foreach ($locales as $locale) {
setlocale(LC_TIME, $locale);
echo strftime("%A, %B %d %Y%n");
}
(let [time (.getTime (GregorianCalendar. 2009 Calendar/JANUARY 1))]
(doseq [locale ["en" "fr" "it" "de" "nl"]]
(println (.format (DateFormat/getDateInstance DateFormat/FULL
(Locale. locale))
time))))
(doseq [locale ["en" "fr" "it" "de" "nl"]]
(println (.format (DateFormat/getDateInstance DateFormat/FULL
(Locale. locale))
time))))
// May require modification of Fantom distribution t
// for undefined locales - basically just create a '<locale-name>.props' plain text file with values like this:
// sunAbbr=Sun
// ..
// sunFull=Sunday
["en", "fr", "ru"].map { Locale(it) }.each |Locale l| {
l.use { echo(Date(2009, Month.jan, 1).toLocale("WWWW, MMMM D, YYYY")) }
}
// for undefined locales - basically just create a '<locale-name>.props' plain text file with values like this:
// sunAbbr=Sun
// ..
// sunFull=Sunday
["en", "fr", "ru"].map { Locale(it) }.each |Locale l| {
l.use { echo(Date(2009, Month.jan, 1).toLocale("WWWW, MMMM D, YYYY")) }
}
cal = Calendar.instance
cal.set(2009, JANUARY, 1)
[ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, new Locale('nl')].each { lang ->
println getDateInstance(FULL, lang).format(cal.time)
}
// relies on Java I18N capabilities which supports many locales, see:
// http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/basic/intl/
// available Locales may depend on your version of Java and/or
// operating system and/or installed fonts
cal.set(2009, JANUARY, 1)
[ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, new Locale('nl')].each { lang ->
println getDateInstance(FULL, lang).format(cal.time)
}
// relies on Java I18N capabilities which supports many locales, see:
// http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/basic/intl/
// available Locales may depend on your version of Java and/or
// operating system and/or installed fonts
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