Check installed timezones on server and use them
Published March 4, 2020 • 1 min read
Use the following commands on your operating system (Linux, MacOS) to see which languages are installed
locale -a
Then you get for example the following displayed:
C C.UTF-8 de_DE.utf8 en_AG en_AG.utf8 en_AU.utf8 en_BW.utf8 en_CA.utf8 en_DK.utf8 en_GB.utf8 en_HK.utf8 en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_IN.utf8 en_NG en_NG.utf8 en_NZ.utf8 en_PH.utf8 en_SG.utf8 en_US.utf8 en_ZA.utf8 en_ZM en_ZM.utf8 en_ZW.utf8 POSIX
For example, if you want to have a German date displayed, you now know that you can use de_DE.utf8.
So in PHP it could look like this:
<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_DE.utf8");
strftime("%A, %d. %B %Y", strtotime('2020-03-03'));
Output:
Dienstag, 04. März 2020