Can't get PW to output German month names

[bramwolf]

Hey Manfred,

Yes my language pack is installed properly, and it still doesn't work

[arjen]

Have you tried using another embed option? Does the localization works in the backend (i.e. form builder preview)? Could you provide us with a little more info, because it's really hard debugging/helping without the right information.

Perhaps you could make a screencap of what you are doing.

[dreerr]

Heads up:
after going through all the posts here I still couldn't get german month names to work. Reason for that was the configuration of the output formatting

WRONG: date output format j. F Y results in 18. July 2017

RIGHT: date output format %e. %B %G results in 18. Juli 2017

The field description also states »Alternatively, you may use a PHP strftime format if desired for localization.« So I guess RTFM :-/

[blynx]

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WRONG: date output format j. F Y results in 18. July 2017

RIGHT: date output format %e. %B %G results in 18. Juli 2017

nice! That was just what was wrong here at my place. 
I think the datetime field should handle that automatically somehow!?

[neophron]

Hi guys, 5 years later…

for separating the date components from a date field, I found this solution. This works fine.

<?php
   $d = strtotime($page->datefield);
   echo date('d', $d) . '<br>'; //e.g 8
   echo date('F Y', $d); //e.g. November 2015
?>

But I want to germanize the output. I tried this:

<?php
   setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.UTF-8');
   $d = strftime("%d. %B %G", strtotime($veranstaltung->datefield));
   echo date('%d.', $d) . '<br>';
   echo date('%B', $d);
?>

But I'm getting an error: A non well formed numeric value encountered

In my config.php I have these lines:

$config->timezone = 'Europe/Berlin';
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.UTF-8');

 

I don't know, if these settings from the date field are correct