Date function output in a local language
date, php
Solution
`date()` is not locale-aware. You should use `strftime()` and its format specifiers to output locale-aware dates (from the `date()` PHP manual):
To format dates in other languages, you should use the `setlocale()` and `strftime()` functions instead of `date()`.
Regarding Anti Veeranna's comment: he is absolutely right, since you have to be very careful with setting locales as they are sometimes not limited to the current script scope. The best way would be:
$oldLocale = setlocale(LC_TIME, 'it_IT');
echo utf8_encode( strftime("%a %d %b %Y", $row['eventtime']) );
setlocale(LC_TIME, $oldLocale);
Problem
I am trying to output dates in the Italian format using `date()` as follows: ``` <?php setlocale(LC_ALL, 'it_IT'); echo date("D d M Y", $row['eventtime']); ?> ``` However, it is still coming out in the English format. What else could I do? Is there something wrong? The solution has to be script specific and not server-wide.