From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2008-08-15T09:53:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Month, Day etc. names in other languages other than English

Diego wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if it was possible to internationalize the constant
> month and day names, used by DateTime class (for example), in to
> something other than English?
> 
> I'm using gettext in a Rails application where I am able to
> internationalize most of the application. But in some cases where I
> take something like a Time class and represent it with a string, I see
> the English names for days and months. "Thu", "Aug" etc.
> 
> I /think/ this goes all the way down to Ruby and not Rails, hence my
> post here. Any help would be appreciated as to how I can
> internationalize this area of my application.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Cheers,
> Diego

If it is a ruby issue, you can override the constants defined in the 
Date class. It will earn you a warning: already initialized constant, 
but that's just what we mean to do. Using Dutch daynames:

require 'Date'
Date.const_set("DAYNAMES",%w(zondag maandag dinsdag woensdag donderdag 
vrijdag zaterdag))
p Date.today.strftime("%A")

Check http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/classes/Date.html 
for the other constants like MONTHNAMES, ABBR_MONTHNAMES, and 
ABBR_DAYNAMES.

hth,

Siep


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