# Localizing dates with Globalize. How? (missing date\_format)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localizing-dates-with-globalize-how-missing-date-format/99189>\
**Category:** Rails I18n\
**Created:** [July 20, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localizing-dates-with-globalize-how-missing-date-format/99189 "2006-07-20T21:55:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![ean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@ean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ean)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localizing-dates-with-globalize-how-missing-date-format/99189/1 "2006-07-20T21:55:12Z")

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Hi \*,

I’m trying to localize dates with the Globalize plugin but the  
date\_format column in my countries table is NULL everywhere. I checked  
to SVN repo and even the latest CSV files don’t seem to include this  
information.  
Am I missing something here?

Cheers,  
Ean

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**Author:** ![ean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@ean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ean)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localizing-dates-with-globalize-how-missing-date-format/99189/2 "2006-07-25T14:38:40Z")

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Hi!

You can check this tutorial:  
[http://www.globalize-rails.org/wiki/pages/Examplary+application](http://www.globalize-rails.org/wiki/pages/Examplary+application)  
Chapter 4.4 describes how to translate dates.