strtotime With Different Languages?

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Does strtotime only work in the default language on the server? The below code should resolve to august 11, 2005, however it uses the french "aout" instead of the english "aug".

Any ideas how to handle this?

<?php
    $date = strtotime('11 aout 05');
    echo date('d M Y',$date);
?>
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9 Answers

The key to solving this question is to convert foreign textual representations to their English counterparts. I also needed this, so inspired by the answers already given I wrote a nice and clean function which would work for retrieving the English month name.

function getEnglishMonthName($foreignMonthName,$setlocale='nl_NL'){

  setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US');

  $month_numbers = range(1,12);

  foreach($month_numbers as $month)
    $english_months[] = strftime('%B',mktime(0,0,0,$month,1,2011));

  setlocale(LC_ALL, $setlocale);

  foreach($month_numbers as $month)
    $foreign_months[] = strftime('%B',mktime(0,0,0,$month,1,2011));

  return str_replace($foreign_months, $english_months, $foreignMonthName);

}

echo getEnglishMonthName('juli');
// Outputs July

You can adjust this for days of the week aswell and for any other locale.

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