[Perl] Multilingual date

[Reuven M. Lerner]

>>>>> Shlomo Yona writes:

  Shlomo> Thanks for your answer.  I tried that. Tried that even with
  Shlomo> another locale, yet I still get the days in English and not
  Shlomo> in the locale language.  Perhaps I'm doing something wrong?

Well, I just tried this on my Linux box (Red Hat 7.2) with the stock
RPM version of Perl 5.6.0:

    % export LC_ALL=en_US
    % export LANG=en_US

    % perl -w
    use POSIX qw(strftime);
    $now_string = strftime "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime;
    print "'$now_string'\n";

I got:

    'Wed Feb 13 16:44:28 2002'

Then I tried:

    % export LC_ALL=cs_CZ
    % export LANG=cs_CZ

    % perl -w
    use POSIX qw(strftime);
    $now_string = strftime "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime;
    print "'$now_string'\n";

I got:

    'St úno 13 16:45:36 2002'

So the code in the documentation clearly works.  The question is
whether (a) locales are set up on your machine, (b) whether you're
setting the locale correctly, and (c) whether your version of Perl is
somehow broken.

Reuven