How to get dates and times in local format?

After succesful installation of Dutch translations, my site still gives dates and times in English format. How can I change that? Do I have to set some 'locale' parameter somewhere?

Hi,

These are controlled by some language strings. More details are in our internationalisation tutorial.

After reading the tutorial I'm afraid I didn't handle the locale-codes right for the Dutch translations.
If I'm not mistaken, they are concentrated in the "global"-template, where the following items appear:

10. English: . Explanation: A comma-separated list of locale codes, given in priority (different systems have different availability, and convention)
Located in [descriptions]locale
18. en-GB
Located in [strings]locale
19. en-GB
Located in [strings]dictionary  

Probably, I didn't handle these right, when I 'translated' these as follows:
10. "nl,en"
18. "en-GB"
19. "en-GB"
I guess for 18 and 19 it should be: "nl". For 10, I'm not sure yet. I'll try and report back.

O.k. for 18 and 19, the following works:
"nl-NL,nl_NL,nld-NLD,nld_NLD".

I don't quite understand what string nr. 10 does. Chris, could you explain?

Now I see that time-notation is not correct anymore (it tries to give times in a more Dutch way, that is, without "AM" of "PM", but it shouldn't just leave those out. Instead it should distinguish between 8.00 o'clock and 20.00 o'clock). I'll try to correct that.
 

Anything that says it is located in [descriptions] should be ignored. It's a side effect from the third party tool we use to import into Launchpad, where that tool is converting our comments into actual translatable entries.

date_* / time_* / calendar_* is the bit in the tutorial I was referring to. But actually Launchpad will be referring to these according to what the original English versions were, rather than the codenames; look for strings like "%i:%M %p".

O.k. I've stumbled around in the PHP manual for date and time parameters that are appropriate for my language. I think I found them (at least they seem to work now on my site) and updated the Launchpad translations.

Anyone interested in how to do this, can take a look at Launchpad (template global for Dutch language).

One more thing: posts on my site tend to show a time which is one hour before 'realtime' over here. When looking how to correct this, I noticed that in the 'global' template, there is a string "date_verbose_time" with the following explanation: "English: %i:%M %p. Explanation: Note that if you're running an international site, you might want to put your timezone on here and related time strings". My question: how could I put my timezone here? I've been checking the internationalisation manual and the PHP manual, but I cannot figure it out. Could someone give me an example for this (preferably for my timezone, i.e. Amsterdam)?

Thanks as always,
Frits

Sorry, just found a way to correct the timezone by another way:

Admin Zone - Setup - Site Options - Current time.

Terrific!

Frits

The devil is in the detail: I can't get the comma between dates and times to be followed by a space. When I 'translate' the original string ", " (located in [strings]date_regular_joiner) by also ", " [with a space], this space never makes it to my site. So I need a hard space, I guess…

Anyone know how to make a hard space at Launchpad?