Patch for Buddhist era in Drupal

Submitted by sugree on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 12:16.

I got a request to fix problem regarding lack of Buddhist era in Drupal for so long. This should be classified as a bug of PHP and Drupal. PHP provides only strftime() which recognizes locale setting, setlocale(). Unfortunately, Drupal uses only gmdate(). That's the problem. So I have to patch common.inc to handle Y and y alternatively.

I have filed this issue to Drupal at #202891 and hope it will be applied to Drupal 6 before final release. To use this feature, you need to add below line to settings.php.

setlocale(LC_CTIME, 'th_TH.UTF8');

Moreover, you might need to ask your hosting provider to generate locale th_TH.UTF8 and restart httpd to activate the new locale.

Drupal 5.x

--- common.inc.orig     2007-12-21 11:30:00.979219418 +0700
+++ common.inc  2007-12-21 11:28:21.795715583 +0700
@@ -1092,7 +1092,14 @@
     if (strpos('AaDFlM', $c) !== FALSE) {
       $date .= t(gmdate($c, $timestamp));
     }
-    else if (strpos('BdgGhHiIjLmnsStTUwWYyz', $c) !== FALSE) {
+    else if (strpos('Yy', $c) !== FALSE) {
+      $y = strftime('%Ey', $timestamp);
+      if ($c == 'y') {
+        $y .= substr($y, -2);
+      }
+      $date .= $y;
+    }
+    else if (strpos('BdgGhHiIjLmnsStTUwWz', $c) !== FALSE) {
       $date .= gmdate($c, $timestamp);
     }
     else if ($c == 'r') {

Drupal 6.x

--- common.inc.orig     2007-12-21 11:38:31.000000000 +0700
+++ common.inc  2007-12-21 11:38:52.000000000 +0700
@@ -1186,7 +1186,14 @@
       // different abbreviations.
       $date .= trim(t('!long-month-name '. gmdate($c, $timestamp), array('!long-month-name' => ''), $langcode));
     }
-    else if (strpos('BdgGhHiIjLmnsStTUwWYyz', $c) !== FALSE) {
+    else if (strpos('Yy', $c) !== FALSE) {
+      $y = strftime('%Ey', $timestamp);
+      if ($c == 'y') {
+        $y .= substr($y, -2);
+      }
+      $date .= $y;
+    }
+    else if (strpos('BdgGhHiIjLmnsStTUwWz', $c) !== FALSE) {
       $date .= gmdate($c, $timestamp);
     }
     else if ($c == 'r') {

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