setlocale() has no effect

[Gustaf Liljegren]

Trying to get a date in Swedish, but this won't work:

$unix_time = strtotime($dt_created);
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'sv', 'sve', 'swe', 'sv_SE');
$time = strftime('%A den %d %B', $unix_time);

No matter what I put in setlocale(), I get English weekdays and months.
I'm using PHP 4.3.8 on a UNIX computer, but I'm not in control of the
installation.

Gustaf

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(Gustaf Liljegren)

Trying to get a date in Swedish, but this won't work:

$unix_time = strtotime($dt_created);
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'sv', 'sve', 'swe', 'sv_SE');
$time = strftime('%A den %d %B', $unix_time);

No matter what I put in setlocale(), I get English weekdays and months.
I'm using PHP 4.3.8 on a UNIX computer, but I'm not in control of the
installation.

Is a Swedish locale installed on that machine?

Micha

[Gustaf Liljegren]

Michael Fesser wrote:

Is a Swedish locale installed on that machine?

I'm not sure about that, and frankly, I don't know how to find out. Can
I see it in phpinfo()? Thanks for helping.

Gustaf

[steve]

"Gustaf Liljegren" wrote:

Michael Fesser wrote:

Is a Swedish locale installed on that machine?

I’m not sure about that, and frankly, I don’t know how to
find out. Can
I see it in phpinfo()? Thanks for helping.

Gustaf

If no answers, the function can be easily written.

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Michael Fesser wrote:

Is a Swedish locale installed on that machine?

I'm not sure about that, and frankly, I don't know how to find out. Can
I see it in phpinfo()? Thanks for helping.

Gustaf

The fact that setlocale() doesn't work seems to indicate that it wasn't.

In general it's best to avoid using setlocale() since it's very system
dependent.

[Gustaf Liljegren]

steve wrote:

If no answers, the function can be easily written.

Yes, I did. Problem solved. :-)