hugo, how to set date language

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With Hugo, I'm creating a blog in french. Currently all my date are displayed in english (february) but I want them to be displayed in french (février). How to set the language ?

My config.toml looks like this:

baseURL = 'http://example.org/'
languageCode = 'fr-FR'
defaultContentLanguage = "fr"
defaultContentLang = "fr"
title = 'TITLE'
theme = "THEME"

I try to set languageCode, defaultContentLanguage and defaultContentLang to fr but with no success.

I don't need multi language support, I just only need french.

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1 Answers

To use localization, you need to use the Hugo function time.Format (which has an alias dateFormat). It takes two parameters:

  • desired format
  • time.Time object, or timestamp

Example:

{{ time.Format "Jan. 2, 2006" .Date }}

or

{{ dateFormat "Jan. 2, 2006" .Date }}

Docs: https://gohugo.io/functions/dateformat/

The .Format method (e.g. {{.Date.Format "Jan. 2, 2006}}) will not apply the desired localization.

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