I use in template $Now.Day and got Thuesday. My problem is - the website is multilingual and I can't get this date in German - Dienstag (Thuesday). Has anybody any ideas how to solve this problem?

Thanks for any help!

Mindaugas

One Solution is to write in /sapphire/core/model/fieldtypes/Date.php, a new function like

function German() {
    if($this->value) 
        return strftime('%e. %B %G', strtotime($this->value));
}

and where is the translation?
with setlocale

for example: add in _config.php

setlocale (LC_TIME,"de_DE"); 

have a look on http://at.php.net/manual/de/function.date.php and especiallyhttp://at.php.net/manual/de/function.strftime.php for the format strings and the difference between date() and strftime().
Anyway, the wanted locale has to be installed on the system.

I use the following in the templates of a Dutch site:

$Date.FormatI18N(%e %B %Y)

Thanks you guys a lot for the help, but it doesn't worked for me. So, I did it with js and currentlang function:

<% if CurrentLang = sv %>
	<script type="text/javascript">
		<!--
		var m_names = new Array("Söndag", "Måndag", "Tisdag", "Onsdag", "Torsdag", "Fredag", "Lördag");
		var d = new Date();
		var curr_date = d.getDate();
		var curr_weekday = d.getDay();
		var curr_month = d.getMonth();
		var curr_year = d.getFullYear();
		document.write(m_names[curr_weekday]);				
		//-->
	</script>
<% end_if %>

Hope it helps for somebody also :)

here is a better but not perfect solution. I've also expand the Date class -> /sapphire/core/model/fieldtypes/Date.php

// Bugfix to translate english month names to current locale
	function TranslatedMonth() {
		if($this->value)
			$currentMonth = '';
			//echo Translatable::get_current_locale().' -> '.(int)strftime('%m', strtotime($this->value));
			if (Translatable::get_current_locale() == 'de_DE') { // german
				$month = array(1 => "Januar",
				               2 => "Februar",
				               3 => "März",
				               4 => "April",
				               5 => "Mai",
				               6 => "Juni",
				               7 => "Juli",
				               8 => "August",
				               9 => "September",
				               10 => "Oktober",
				               11 => "November",
				               12 => "Dezember");
				               
				$currentMonth = $month[(int)strftime('%m', strtotime($this->value))];
			} else {
				$currentMonth = strftime('%B', strtotime($this->value));
			}
			return $currentMonth;
	}

You can add another elseif for your language translation.
The better way should be to include the language files with its translation for every month and day...

I have created a small module for SS3 that will translate dates automatically once added to your project. You can check it out here: https://github.com/richardsjoqvist/silverstripe-localdate

Bug reports and improvement suggestions are most welcome!