Display Month in Spanish using strftime?
Display Month in Spanish using strftime?
I am trying to get the format a date from 2018-09-01 to September 1, 2018.
I have been using:
strftime(displayDate, sizeof(displayDate), "%B %d %Y", &date_obj);
It works perfectly, but, is there a way to format the Month to be in Spanish?
Thank you. Will give it a try. If the locale is changed multiple times, can that cause issues with the OS?
– Jaime T
Aug 29 at 15:10
1 Answer
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The strftime function formats dates based on the current locale. So you'll need to set the locale for LC_TIME first:
strftime
LC_TIME
setlocale(LC_TIME, "es_ES-UTF_8");
See setlocale for more information.
setlocale
Thank you. Will give it a try. If the locale is changed multiple times, can that cause issues with the OS?
– Jaime T
Aug 29 at 15:10
@JaimeT Setting the locale with
setlocale only affects the current process, and only the given locale category.– dbush
Aug 29 at 15:12
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You must set the locale for Spanish first and then format the date string. See setlocale function.
– Andrew Truckle
Aug 29 at 15:05