I see there are a few threads about this but I am having a bit of trouble setting the locale for my region. I am using the SilverStripe blog and events modules and the dates are displaying in English. I need them to display in Afrikaans for South Africa.

I have tried both of these in my _config.php file but they don't seem to work:

i18n::set_locale('af_ZA');
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'af_ZA', 'af_ZA.UTF8', 'Afrikaans');

EDIT:
Just narrowed it down to working on localhost but not working on live server. Is this server dependant? I have done a dev/build and a flush.

Hi Craig,

I mostly use this module for things like that.
http://addons.silverstripe.org/add-ons/richardsjoqvist/silverstripe-localdate

Hope it helps

You need to check that your server has this locale installed. I had the same issue before.
Debian way to fix it:
sudo locale-gen "af_ZA.UTF8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Can confirm, it was the server. It worked on my localhost but not on my testing environment. Went live and it is working there so all good.