Date picker language front-end

• floriz

• September 6, 2013 at 2:39 pm

Hithere

I’m having problems with the date picker field. I use it to set a date of events, a custom post type.

My WordPress installation is in Dutch (Multisite) and whatever i try i keep getting the dates back in English format in my theme. I want to retrieve the 3 letter month name in dutch;

<?php $date = DateTime::createFromFormat(‘Ymd’, get_field(‘datum_event’)); echo $date->format(‘M’); ?>

The date picker in the admin area is in Dutch….

Hope someone can help.

Kind regards!
Floris Hermans

• Elliot

• September 7, 2013 at 1:52 pm

Hi @floriz

This is an interesting issue which I would like to solve and write a tutorial for.
Here is an older thread which covered some ideas / solutions:
http://old.support.advancedcustomfields.com/discussion/4789/date-field-output-in-non-english-language

I wonder if it is posisble to use the WP __() translate function to translate the month like so:

$month = $date->format(‘M’);
echo __($month);

• floriz

• September 7, 2013 at 2:28 pm

Ok, solved it now. Not the most beautiful solution but it works:

<?php if (have_posts()) :

$paged = ( get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) ) ? get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) : 1;
$today = date( ‘Ymd’, strtotime( ‘-1 day’ ) );

query_posts( array(
‘post_type’ => ‘agenda’,
‘meta_key’ => ‘datum_event’,
‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’,
‘order’ => ‘ASC’,
‘posts_per_page’ => 12,
‘paged’ => $paged,

‘meta_query’ => array(
array(
‘key’ => ‘datum_event’,
‘meta-value’ => $today,
‘value’ => $today,
‘paged’ => $paged,
‘compare’ => ‘>’ // DEZE AANPASSEN OM OUDE ITEMS TE LATEN ZIEN
)
)

) );

date_default_timezone_set( ‘Europe/Amsterdam’ );
setlocale( LC_ALL, ‘nl_NL’ ) or setlocale( LC_ALL, ‘nld_NLD’ );

$months = explode( ‘,’, ‘,jan,feb,mrt,apr,mei,jun,jul,aug,sep,okt,nov,dec’ );

while (have_posts()) : the_post();

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat( ‘Ymd’, get_field( ‘datum_event’ ), new DateTimeZone( ‘Europe/Amsterdam’ ) );
?>

<p class=”jaar”><?php echo $date->format( ‘Y’ ); ?></p>
<p class=”dag”><?php echo $date->format( ‘j’ ); ?></p>
<p class=”maand”><?php echo $months[ $date->format( ‘n’ ) ]; ?></p>

• floriz

• September 7, 2013 at 2:30 pm

it would be so much better if it just uses the WordPress language settings as standard output.

• Elliot

• September 8, 2013 at 6:11 pm

Hi @floriz

Thanks for the code. I’m sure there is a function in the WP core for us to use in this scenario, I’m just not sure which one…

Thanks again.
Cheers
E

• andiszek

• September 15, 2013 at 7:14 pm

Hi Floris,
i had the same problem 2 days ago with a german language website and i`ve found a simple solution.
please see here: http://oenj.justbemotion.com/stockschiessen/ergebnisse-stockschiessen/ (first column, Mrz stands for März)

here is the solution i have used:

 <?php
$dateStart = date_i18n("d M Y", strtotime(get_sub_field('stcksch_termine_datum1')));

?>
<?php if(get_sub_field('stcksch_termine_datum1')): ?>
<?php echo $dateStart; ?>	
<?php endif; ?>

hope it helps.

regards,
andi

EDIT: i have used it as a subfield in a repeater field, so please use get_field instead of get_sub_field.

• tostnik

• September 2, 2020 at 8:28 am

Hi, my date picker field is still not getting the translated value after using the snippet above. I have read this could be a bug after WordPress 5.3?

I am using WordPress 5.5 + ACF PRO 5.9.0 + Polylang Pro 2.8.1 and the following code:

wp_date("F Y", strtotime(get_sub_field('date')));

wp_date is the alternative to date_i18n after WordPress 5.3. date_i18n is giving me the month text only in English too.