Locale specific date in jekyll

Question

I am trying out jekyll for website creation. I am using jekyll-bootstrap.

The default configuration has the page archive, where all the posts are listed grouped by year and month of the post date. Currently the months appear in English. I've looked at the code and this is an excerpt which is responsible for putting the date:

{% capture this_month %}{{ post.date | date: "%B" }}{% endcapture %} 

I've found a lot of information here, so there is a way to specify the desired locale. But how can you make jekyll respect it? Simply adding

default_locale: "lt" 

in _config.yml naturally does not work.

Answer 1

You can overwrite the current month by using Liquid Date Format:

{% assign m = page.date | date: "%-m" %} {{ page.date | date: "%-d" }} {% case m %}   {% when '1' %}Januar   {% when '2' %}Februar   {% when '3' %}März   {% when '4' %}April   {% when '5' %}Mai   {% when '6' %}Juni   {% when '7' %}Juli   {% when '8' %}August   {% when '9' %}September   {% when '10' %}Oktober   {% when '11' %}November   {% when '12' %}Dezember {% endcase %} {{ page.date | date: "%Y" }} 

If your date is, for example 2015-02-20, the output will be 20 Februar 2015

Answer 2

Because i18n is not available on github pages, I built upon answer of @Kleo Petroff and the answer of @Falc, I set up a way to have a date with locale names defined in a YAML file :

The code is almost the same without the whole case statement :

{% capture i18n_date %} {{ page.date | date: "%-d" }} {% assign m = page.date | date: "%-m" | minus: 1 %} {{ site.data.fr.months[m] }} {{ page.date | date: "%Y" }} {% endcapture %} 

I set the following data-structure (could be in _config.yml, or in some _data/some.yml file), in the above code the file is _data/fr.yml :

months:     - Janvier     - Février     - Mars     - Avril     - Mai     - Juin     - Juillet     - Aout     - Septembre     - Octobre     - Novembre     - Décembre 

Note that page.date | date: "%-m" output the month number as a string, ie June number is actually "6" not 6, liquid silently casts that string to a number when piping the minus filter. During development it was not something I was aware and thus liquid didn't returned anything when passingmwith the value "6" tosite.data.fr.months[m]`, I only saw the trick when looking at Falc answer.