AM/PM translation dont work

[EBrockway]

Hi,

Could we have the "AM" and "PM" string added to the language files as it is?

Regards

[tobifjellner]

Can you be more specific about where you see a problem?
If you look at the current build of WordPress trunk you'll find in
​https://build.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/class-wp-locale.php
the following lines:

	                // The meridiems.
$this->meridiem['am'] = __( 'am' );
$this->meridiem['pm'] = __( 'pm' );
$this->meridiem['AM'] = __( 'AM' );
$this->meridiem['PM'] = __( 'PM' );

[amans2k]

Hello @tobifjellner,

Thanks for the response.

Let me brief the problem.

DateTimePicker WordPress component
​http://imgwxl.com/a/2023-11-21-10:23:10.png

It outputs AM and PM string

• English US view

​http://imgwxl.com/a/2023-11-21-10:19:29.png

• Spanish view

​http://imgwxl.com/a/2023-11-21-10:18:09.png

• But in the French view, AM and PM translation is empty with space

​http://imgwxl.com/a/2023-11-21-10:16:00.png

It should show the same AM PM or the translated string, but shouldn't be blank.

French users are unable to find what it is as it is blank.

Kindly look into it.

Thanks!

[tobifjellner]

Thanks a lot for this information, @amans2k

So this is not a WordPress core problem, but a translation issue.
I can see that this is the case for #fr_FR and #fr_BE (but not for Canadian French).

I guess the reason is that these translation teams took for granted that sites with their languages will always use 24 hour system. But in form components this may not always be the case.

I have used the respective locale tags in my comment to notify the Translation Editors for these language variants about the problem.

Ref for fr_FR:

• ​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/fr/default/?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=3080&sort%5Bby%5D=translation_date_added&sort%5Bhow%5D=asc
• ​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/fr/default/?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=3082&sort%5Bby%5D=translation_date_added&sort%5Bhow%5D=asc
• ​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/fr/default/?filters[status]=either&filters[original_id]=3079&sort[by]=translation_date_added&sort[how]=asc
• ​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/fr/default/?filters[status]=either&filters[original_id]=3081&sort[by]=translation_date_added&sort[how]=asc

Ref for fr_BE:

• ​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/fr-be/default/?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=3080&sort%5Bby%5D=translation_date_added&sort%5Bhow%5D=asc
• ​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/fr-be/default/?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=3082&sort%5Bby%5D=translation_date_added&sort%5Bhow%5D=asc
• ​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/fr-be/default/?filters[status]=either&filters[original_id]=3079&sort[by]=translation_date_added&sort[how]=asc
• ​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/fr-be/default/?filters[status]=either&filters[original_id]=3081&sort[by]=translation_date_added&sort[how]=asc

Actually any logged-in user here can suggest translations for these strings. So I invite you, @EBrockway to do that for these 8 strings. Once done, you can close this ticket as "Reported upstream". :)

[EBrockway]

Done @tobifjellner :)