Translating months to Spanish equivalent

Question

Hey all -
Simple yet elusive problem. I have a query looping over a
list of articles for one of my websites. Some of these articles are
in Spanish. Next to each article title is the date of the article.
I'm using a standard DateFormat to do this:
#dateformat(query.ArticleDate, "mmmm yyyy")#
That ArticleDate is a smalldatetime data type in my SQL
Server. Is there anyway to avoid a complex CFIF (or cfswitch)
checking the results of #dateformat(query.ArticleDate, "mmmm
yyyy")# and replacing them with the Spanish equivalent?
Gracias.

Answer 1

longboardfin wrote:
> That ArticleDate is a smalldatetime data type in my SQL
Server. Is there
> anyway to avoid a complex CFIF (or cfswitch) checking
the results of
> #dateformat(query.ArticleDate, "mmmm yyyy")# and
replacing them with the
> Spanish equivalent?
set the locale to your preferred locale, for example (cf7):
<cfset oldLocale=setLocale("es_ES")>
then simply format it using the one of the LS methods:
#lsDateFormat(query.ArticleDate, "mmmm yyyy")#
though i strongly urge you to stick w/the standard masks
(FULL, LONG, MEDIUM,
SHORT)--you'll never be able to parse that custom mask back
to the original
datetime object if you ever have to.