On Aug 27, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote: > I'm not sure why you think this would work on Linux either. On my system > here's what I get: > > perl -MPOSIX -E 'say POSIX::setlocale(POSIX::LC_TIME())' > en_US.UTF-8
Yeah, me too. > That locale will not make DateTime::Locale happy either. Seems okay with it: > perl -MDateTime -MPOSIX -E 'my $dt = DateTime->now; $dt->set(locale => > POSIX::setlocale( POSIX::LC_TIME() ) ); say $dt->locale' DateTime::Locale::en_US=HASH(0x7fc90a297dd8) > Of course, this one's relatively easy to make into something DateTime can > handle, whereas the Windows one is _way_ off. Either way, I think you may > need to rethink how you translate the user's locale for DateTime. > > I'm not really sure what the best way to do it is besides presenting users > with an explicit choice. > > With Windows, someone might want to maintain a master translation list of > Windows names to CLDR names, much like we currently translate timezone names. I found Win32::Locale, which seems to do what I need it to. Best, David
