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Hi all,

I was wondering if it was possible to internationalize the constant
month and day names, used by DateTime class (for example), in to
something other than English?

I'm using gettext in a Rails application where I am able to
internationalize most of the application. But in some cases where I
take something like a Time class and represent it with a string, I see
the English names for days and months. "Thu", "Aug" etc.

I /think/ this goes all the way down to Ruby and not Rails, hence my
post here. Any help would be appreciated as to how I can
internationalize this area of my application.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Diego

Diego wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if it was possible to internationalize the constant
> month and day names, used by DateTime class (for example), in to
> something other than English?
>
> I'm using gettext in a Rails application where I am able to
> internationalize most of the application. But in some cases where I
> take something like a Time class and represent it with a string, I see
> the English names for days and months. "Thu", "Aug" etc.
>
> I /think/ this goes all the way down to Ruby and not Rails, hence my
> post here. Any help would be appreciated as to how I can
> internationalize this area of my application.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
> Diego

If it is a ruby issue, you can override the constants defined in the
Date class. It will earn you a warning: already initialized constant,
but that's just what we mean to do. Using Dutch daynames:

require 'Date'
Date.const_set("DAYNAMES",%w(zondag maandag dinsdag woensdag donderdag
vrijdag zaterdag))
p Date.today.strftime("%A")

Check http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdo...sses/Date.html
for the other constants like MONTHNAMES, ABBR_MONTHNAMES, and
ABBR_DAYNAMES.

hth,

Siep


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Siep Korteling wrote:
> If it is a ruby issue, you can override the constants defined in the
> Date class. It will earn you a warning: already initialized constant,
> but that's just what we mean to do. Using Dutch daynames:

Doing so breaks DateTime. E.g. parsing will fail afair. There's probably
more issues.

> require 'Date'

Don't require 'Date', require 'date' instead. Otherwise your apps/libs
will break on case sensitive file systems.

Regards
Stefan Rusterholz ("apeiros")
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