I am using I18n for localizing a rails application, and i came across a situation which involves time format using I18n.
the date and time format displaying is as follows: "Tuesday, July 11, 2017" for time : 2017-07-11 12:30:00 +0530
for localizing i am using en.yml and es.yml with both time formats as shown below:
en:
time:
formats:
long: '%A, %B %d, %Y'
short: '%b %d, %Y'
and in model i am using I18n.l(raw_date.to_time, format: :long), this working fine for english with result "Tuesday, July 11, 2017", but for spanish its returning like this: "a, t 11, 2017"
what is the datetime format for spanish to get the same result as english. any help would be appreciated :)
Looking at the rails-i18n spanish file, I've pulled a couple of their translations over and everything seems to be working as expected (I saw the same issue until I added these translations).
config/locales/es.yml
es:
date:
day_names:
- domingo
- lunes
- martes
- miércoles
- jueves
- viernes
- sábado
month_names:
-
- enero
- febrero
- marzo
- abril
- mayo
- junio
- julio
- agosto
- septiembre
- octubre
- noviembre
- diciembre
time:
formats:
long: '%A, %B %d, %Y'
short: '%b %d, %Y'
and then in the console:
I18n.locale = :es
I18n.l(Date.today.to_time, format: :long) # => "viernes, julio 21, 2017"
I recommend taking a look at the rest of their file (or even pulling in the entire thing) if you're doing a lot of translations with rails built in stuff.
Notes: