Locale¶
Locale are a set of configuration which describe how to handle different formats of data, such as monetary values, dates and time.
Locales are extracted from the system, and depends on a country name and a language name. For example, fr-FR for French French, nl_NL for Dutch, or zh_CN for Chinese Chinese.
Locale are supported with the ext/icu extension, and also, natively with the setlocale() function.
<?php
/* Set locale to Dutch */
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL');
/* Output: vrijdag 22 december 1978 */
echo strftime("%A %e %B %Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 22, 1978));
?>
See also setlocale()