Date format returned by wp_get_archives is not localizable

[stephenju]

When using wp_get_archives('type=monthly'), the date string format in the links is hard coded as "month year" not localizable.

[skippy]

lines 306 and 309 of wp-includes/template-functions-general.php:

$text = sprintf('%s %d', $month[zeroise($arcresult->month,2)], $arcresult->year);

I don't see a clean way to use the blog's preferred date format; maybe someone else will.

[nbachiyski]

We could easily fetch also the unix timestamp of a post in that month from the database and then form the string using the date_i18n function with an internationalized date format:

$text = date_i18n(_('F Y'), $arcresult->post_date);

However, in this situation we could run into some problems. The string marked for internaliozation is 'F Y' (which means: monthname year). For example I want to translate it as '\a\r\c\h\i\v\e \f\o\r\: Y F', but somewhere in Wordpress the same combination 'F Y' is used and it is again internationalized. If the second occurence of 'F Y' is in other context (far apart from archives) then our translation will be totally inadequate.

Actually, using the same string in many contexts is far more general gettext issue and maybe is its greatest flaw...

[stephenju]

May I suggest that an additional month date format option to be added in the admin? This will avoid the ambiguity and allow user full control over the format.

Also, I would argue this is a high priority bug since it's the default format of the archive listing and every blog in a language with different date/time format will show it WRONG.

[drssay]

Is there any solution of this?
This ticket must fixed quickly for non latin1 user(for example China & Japan & Korean)
I Think below solution is very good solution.

$text = date_i18n(_('F Y'), $arcresult->post_date);

[drssay]

second option

$text = sprintf(_('%1$s %2$d'), $month[zeroise($arcresult->month,2)], $arcresult->year);

I think that best solution using smallest edit.

patch attached.

[ryan]

(In [4545]) gettext date format strings in wp_get_archives. fixes #1540

[tai]

Please put one more underbar like

(__('%1$s %2$d')

, otherwise it doesn't work.

[Viper007Bond]

Missing _'s

[markjaquith]

(In [4641]) _() => () typo fix. props tai. fixes #1540