Localizing dates

Rails Rails I18n
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Hi

How to localize the different methods in e.g. Date ?

Tries to use Date.parse(str) with str in any language.
I have a fix for my current problem, where str is a swedish date of
the form 12 MAJ 1983; Date.parse(str.gsub(‘MAJ’,‘MAY’),
but is there a more generic solution?

How to use the different localzed date format as e.g
date.abbr_month_names ?
Tried I18n.l(Date.today) and
I18n.l(Date.today.strftime("%d %b %Y")) and
I18n.l(y.wday).to_s and
I18n.l(y).wday
but without any success !!

The problem is that I do not understand this part of I18n and the
guides give no information about the more complex use of localize?

Would appreciate any help

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Hi Hans,

you could use my delocalize plugin for that:
GitHub - clemens/delocalize: Date/time and number parsing for Rails..

  • Clemens

On Aug 25, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Hans M. wrote:

I18n.l(Date.today.strftime(“%d %b %Y”)) and
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For the second question:

You pass the :format parameter, like this:

I18n.l(Date.today, :format => :long)

The default available formats are :default, :short and :long but you can
add
more to your locale file:

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Thanks Clemens
It solved all my problems! Just what I needed.
However the plugin should be listed in the i18n guide

Next I need a plugin for inverse translations if existing ?
There is some suggestions in earlier discussion of this problem, but
as Sven remarked – these solutions are really hacks
Any news regarding this problem

Hans M.
St: Larsgatan 50, 58224 Linköping, Sweden
Phone: +46708371202

25 aug 2010 kl. 10.47 skrev Clemens K.:

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Hi Mejía ¨
Thanks for the suggestions. I now think that I understand this area
better

Regarding Mitchell question
A also use separate html files for longer texts (more than one sentence)

Hans M.
St: Larsgatan 50, 58224 Linköping, Sweden
Phone: +46708371202

25 aug 2010 kl. 17.48 skrev Andrés Mejía: