Date.Format Internationalization

[tubia]

Hi,
Maybe I don't understand well the logic of the .Date.Format variable, but it's possible to change the language of the months (for example) when they are displayed?
Something like {{ .Date.Format.IT "30 marzo 2006" }}

[tummychow]

The standard Go time package don't have internationalization built in. You can see the list of month names that Go is aware of here, and they're all English. The easiest solution would probably be to display the months as numbers instead.

[spf13]

For this we use two different packages.

The go standard date library and cast

Since neither support what you are looking for, I'm going to close this for now. The right answer is for someone to extend the standard date library to support this.

[jice-lavocat]

A hint for those who would like to solve the problem with Javascript : you can use the Moment.js library to format/localize your dates.

[variadico]

Hi, there.

I wrote a general-purpose package, called lctime, that might be able to fix this issue. It uses locales and strftime to format dates internationally. In addition, I use go-bindata to bundle locale data, which means devs don't have to distribute anything extra with their app.

I was thinking this issue could be easily solved if we could add lctime.Strftime as a template function. Then people could use this in their templates.

<p>{{strftime "%c" .Date}}</p>

The default locale is based on environment variables. However, if people want to change the locale, they can start Hugo like this.

LC_TIME=es_MX hugo server

Or maybe they could add a locale field in their config.yaml and Hugo could call lctime.SetLocale to explicitly set the locale.

Let me know if this is something that sounds interesting. I wouldn't mind opening a PR. Happy holidays! 🎄

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