Localizing dates in WordPress themes
Our theme on the English side and the Japanese side are the same. And by that I mean, we only have one copy of the theme files that is used for both sides. For this to work, it has to be fully localised and independant. One thing that is quite different in the two languages is the formatting of dates. A date like Dec 13th 2009 might be formatted as 2009年12月13日 Chapp worked from a theme that had the date formats hard coded into the theme. As in: <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?> If we left that in, the Japanese side’s dates wouldn’t be right, but if we took out the ‘F jS, Y’ part, it defaulted to outputting the time. As a workaround, we used: <?php the_date(); ?> which does fetch and use the right formatted date...