TYPO3.Fluid

Hi [this is related to fluid, I don't know if this is the right bugtracker],

just found out that the format date viewhelper does not support local date settings (day or month names etc) because it uses the DateFormat object that does not care for the locale.

A short test case shows this:

dateTime->format('l, d. F Y'): Monday, 30. November 2009
strftime('%A, %d. %B %G'): Monday, 30. November 2009

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.utf8');

dateTime->format('l, d. F Y'): Monday, 30. November 2009
strftime('%A, %d. %B %G'): Montag, 30. November 2009

(compare "Monday" and "Montag" in the last part)

Code:

$dateTime = new DateTime();
echo 'dateTime->format(\'l, d. F Y\'):';
echo $dateTime->format('l, d. F Y');
echo 'strftime(\'%A, %d. %B %G\'):';
echo strftime('%A, %d. %B %G');
echo "\n";
echo 'setlocale(LC_ALL, \'de_DE.utf8\')' . "\n\n";
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.utf8');
echo 'dateTime->format(\'l, d. F Y\'):';
echo $dateTime->format('l, d. F Y');
echo 'strftime(\'%A, %d. %B %G\'):';
echo strftime('%A, %d. %B %G');

We could probably use strftime for locales other than en_US (or always?). If you think that reasonable I'll try making a patch at the weekend.