time.strptime() for different languages

Benjamin Niemann pink at odahoda.de
Wed Aug 31 16:44:23 EDT 2005


Adam Monsen wrote:

> Anyone know of something that works like time.strptime(), but for
> other languages? Specifically, Dutch (ex: "31 augustus 2005, 17:26")
> and German?
> 
> Thinking out loud... since "31 augustus 2005, 17:26" is only different
> by month name, I suppose I could just substitute the month name using
> a translation table for English to Dutch month names.

Have you tested it with the proper locale setting and strptime(dateString,
"%c")? I have not ;)

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Benjamin Niemann
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