It worked for me. Here's my template:
#errorCatcher Echo
#encoding UTF-8
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<head profile="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile";>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
#import locale
## Try French:
#set $loc = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'fr_FR.utf8')
<p>Locale is $loc. Current time is $current.dateTime. The day of the week
is $current.dateTime.format("%A")</p>
## now try Spanish.
#set $loc = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'es_ES.utf8')
<p>Locale is $loc. Current time is $current.dateTime. The day of the week
is $current.dateTime.format("%A")</p>
## ... and US English.
#set $loc = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.utf8')
<p>Locale is $loc. Current time is $current.dateTime. The day of the week
is $current.dateTime.format("%A")</p>
</body>
</html>
This gave the results:
Locale is fr_FR.utf8. Current time is 24/11/2016 12:05:00. The day of the
week is jeudi
Locale is es_ES.utf8. Current time is 24/11/16 12:05:00. The day of the
week is jueves
Locale is en_US.utf8. Current time is 11/24/2016 12:05:00 PM. The day of
the week is Thursday
-tk
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 7:51 AM, M0GLH <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Many thanks for the suggestion but frustratingly, no luck. I've tried
> this, along with declaring FR, NL and EN locales in the OS as a group, and
> then each individually, however none of the functional language definitions
> or variations declared in the locale.setlocale statement overrides the
> declared global locale (language) as dateTime calls always returned the
> current OS locale values.
>
> For what it's worth, when a locale other than en_US is set as the system
> default, Weewx wouldn't start:
>
> Nov 26 10:54:07 Wx systemd[1]: Starting LSB: weewx weather system...
>
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx weewx[3519]: Starting weewx weather system:
> weewxTraceback (most recent call last):
>
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx weewx[3519]: File "/usr/bin/weewxd", line 12, in
> <module>
>
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx weewx[3519]: import user.extensions
> #@UnusedImport
>
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx weewx[3519]: File "/usr/share/weewx/user/extensions.py",
> line 18, in <module>
>
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx weewx[3519]: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
>
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx weewx[3519]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line
> 579, in setlocale
>
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx weewx[3519]: return _setlocale(category, locale)
>
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx weewx[3519]: locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
>
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx weewx[3519]: failed!
>
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx systemd[1]: weewx.service: control process exited,
> code=exited status=1
>
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: weewx weather system.
> Nov 26 10:54:08 Wx systemd[1]: Unit weewx.service entered failed state.
>
> Not sure what to try next, perhaps a separate Pi for each language?
>
> Craig
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> On Saturday, November 26, 2016 at 2:30:40 AM UTC+1, Tom Keffer wrote:
>>
>> Darned good question, and I'm not sure I know the answer.
>>
>> Because the Cheetah template engine allows you to include Python code,
>> one thing you could try is to set the desired locale at the top of the
>> template. Something like
>>
>> #import locale
>> #locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'fr_FR.utf8')
>>
>> ## Hopefully this is in french!
>> $current.dateTime
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure if this will work, because I'm not sure exactly when the
>> binding happens for Python included in the template. I assume (and hope!)
>> that it's early, so this would work.
>>
>> Give it a try.
>>
>> -tk
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:08 PM, M0GLH <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I’m running v3.6.1 deb on an RPi 2 with a Vantage Pro 2 and have built
>>> Dutch and English versions of the web pages, but I’m having problems with
>>> default languages (environment locale) and tags that return dateTime values.
>>>
>>>
>>> The OS environment locale is set to GB English by default, mainly for my
>>> convenience, but I want Weewx to generate web pages in both Dutch and
>>> English, with date related names correct for each language. Localising
>>> text in the templates and skins is dead easy, but how can I separately
>>> define a language variable for tags which return dateTime values (e.g.
>>> week.*****.minTime
>>> or month.*****.maxTime) so that these are correct for the language of
>>> the particular skin and templates it appears in, for example, Monday on
>>> English pages, Maandag on Dutch pages, and Lundi on French pages.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have two different skins, each with a full set of templates. I plan
>>> on adding a third set in French, and I want date presentations in each to
>>> match that page's language. If I change the default environment locale,
>>> *all
>>> *labels which use locale are generated in that language which will be
>>> incorrect for one or more of the three languages.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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