PHP date function

<?php echo date('F j, Y'); ?>

displays the time in the format

February 19, 2012

How to display the same thing in a similar format, but in Russian text?

February 19, 2012

  • “Russian date php” -> google.ru - Oleg

2 answers 2

Local time is displayed using a pair of setlocale and strftime functions. First you need to check which locales are on the server.

 ls /usr/share/locale | grep 'ru'

Then set the desired locale (for example, if you have ru_RU.UTF-8) and display the formatted date

 <?php setlocale(LC_TIME, 'ru_RU.UTF-8'); echo strftime('%B %d, %Y') ?>

Sometimes with locales there are difficulties on different operating systems, then iconv conversion is like, for example:

 iconv("cp1251", "UTF-8", strftime("%B %d, %Y"))

The format “% B% d,% Y” is similar, not exactly the one you requested.

    in this case, changing the locale will only help with the strftime function.