I lost track of this and it came up again this morning. I'm not having a lot of luck researching what should be done.
I see in http://cldr.unicode.org/cldr-features#TOC-Locale-specific-patterns-for-formatting-and-parsingthere's a heading "Translation of Names" where there's a list item "timezones, timezone cities" but no link. But, perhaps a more on point and useful question is: I need to always show times with a timezone, and in a way that is localized for the user. What is the best way to do that currently with DateTime? Should "EST" be translated? What about "UTC"? (e.g. if using UTC + offset) I suspect UTC + offset isn't a very friendly timezone for many people. Locale "ar-sa" shows the following. Is America/New_York and EST not translated on purpose? using format: full : الأحد، 26 يناير، 2014 America/New_York 10:37:42 ص using format: long : 26 يناير، 2014 EST 10:37:42 ص using format: medium : 26/01/2014 10:37:42 ص using format: short : 26/1/2014 10:37 ص On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Bill Moseley <mose...@hank.org> wrote: > I would like to simplify our localization of dates and, if possible, just > use this format for timestamps: > > $dt->strftime( '%x %X' ); > > > First question, is there any difference between the above and this? > > join ' ' , $dt->format_cldr( $locale->date_format_default, > $locale->time_format_default ) > > Second, do timezones get localized? For example, here's the default > formats for "ko": > > using format: full : 2014년 1월 16일 목요일 오후 05시 10분 28초 America/New_York > using format: long : 2014년 1월 16일 오후 05시 10분 28초 EST > using format: medium : 2014. 1. 16. 오후 5:10:28 > using format: short : 14. 1. 16. 오후 5:10 > > Won't be using the "full" format, but showing a timezone is needed. Can > (or does?) EST get localized? > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > -- > Bill Moseley > mose...@hank.org > -- Bill Moseley mose...@hank.org
