Date Format By Country

Question

Hi There Helpful people...
Usual stuff first DW8, (Mac - not that that makes a
difference), ASP VB connected to SQL database.
I have a content management - which is used to maintain the
content of an international site. On the site we have a timeline
displaying key moments in the company's history. The articles are
translated into the relevant languages and are pasted in to the
database - no problems here. The dates are entered numerically ie
01/01/2007. The SQL statement for the page converts this date into
Month and Year (ie October 1983) using the statement "SELECT
datename (mm,hi_date) 'Month', datename (yy,hi_date) 'Year',
hi_text, hi_image" A later statement selects which language to pull
from the database as all 6 languages go in the same database but
are given a country code (GB, ES, PT etc).
My problem is this - that month and year always displays in
English no mater which country it is view in. Is there a way of
getting it to show the month in the language of the user or simpler
still specify the language I want for the date directly in the
page? (Each language is done as a sub-site, ie
www.websitename.com/es so it does not need to be a one for all
solution)
Your help would be appreciated
Best Regards
Stuart

Answer 1

Well, the database server is always the same language. You
could set the
LCID of the page based on the selected language, though.
Then, pass the
date as a date from the database and use VBScript's date
functions to
display the month and year. Those functions will obey the
LCID setting of
the page.
<%=MonthName(Month(yourRS.Fields.Item("dateCol").Value))%>
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> Hi There Helpful people...
>
> Usual stuff first DW8, (Mac - not that that makes a
difference), ASP VB
> connected to SQL database.
>
> I have a content management - which is used to maintain
the content of an
> international site. On the site we have a timeline
displaying key moments
> in
> the company's history. The articles are translated into
the relevant
> languages
> and are pasted in to the database - no problems here.
The dates are
> entered
> numerically ie 01/01/2007. The SQL statement for the
page converts this
> date
> into Month and Year (ie October 1983) using the
statement "SELECT datename
> (mm,hi_date) 'Month', datename (yy,hi_date) 'Year',
hi_text, hi_image" A
> later
> statement selects which language to pull from the
database as all 6
> languages
> go in the same database but are given a country code
(GB, ES, PT etc).
>
> My problem is this - that month and year always displays
in English no
> mater
> which country it is view in. Is there a way of getting
it to show the
> month in
> the language of the user or simpler still specify the
language I want for
> the
> date directly in the page? (Each language is done as a
sub-site, ie
> www.websitename.com/es so it does not need to be a one
for all solution)
>
> Your help would be appreciated
>
> Best Regards
>
> Stuart
>