Date/Time Zone

[choobin84]

hi,
i need to change the date and its calendar in ocs from international calendar into persian calendar(farsi or jalali).
how do it?
tanx.

[jmacgreg]

Hi choobin84,

Changing to Persian may be a little tricky, but try and follow the instructions set out in the following thread: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2068. PHP's date formatting tools may not be up to Persian dates. Don't worry about the patch discussed in the above thread: it has been included in recent releases.

Cheers,
James

[choobin84]

thank you...
but i don't know how this work?
which file must be change?

[jmacgreg]

Hi choobin84,

You will want to find the following code block in config.inc.php:

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 Short and long date formats
date_format_trunc = "%m-%d"
date_format_short = "%Y-%m-%d"
date_format_long = "%B %e, %Y"
datetime_format_short = "%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p"
datetime_format_long = "%B %e, %Y - %I:%M %p"

And change the values (the stuff in quotation marks) for each parameter to locale-specific settings (for example, as listed in http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php,

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- %a - abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale
- %A - full weekday name according to the current locale
- %b - abbreviated month name according to the current locale
- %B - full month name according to the current locale
- %c - preferred date and time representation for the current locale

You will also have to ensure that your default locale is set to Persian in config.inc.php. we can't guarantee that this will work: this is essentially a PHP function, and they may not fully support Persian. Please let us know how you do, and we may be able to provide more assistance.

Cheers,
James

[asmecher]

Hi choobin84,

We're not especially familiar with using Persian dates -- but we're using standard PHP tools to manage dates, so I did a bit of googling to find whether and how PHP supports them. From pages such as http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/persian-date-helper it appears that PHP does not natively support Persian dates (though I could be wrong). If that's the case, you'll need to do a little bit of PHP work to get Persian dates working. Here is what you'll need to do:

• Write or find PHP functions to convert from Gregorian to/from Persian; see, for example, http://forums.mpadc.com/showthread.php/hejri-hijri-date-326.html
• Modify the following classes to use them (instead of the strftime function, which is currently used to format times):
  • classes/submission/reviewer/ReviewerAction.inc.php
  • classes/submission/sectionEditor/SectionEditorAction.inc.php
  • classes/tasks/ReviewReminder.inc.php
• Modify the Smarty library to support Persian dates; this will involve replacing the date_format and html_select_date functions with versions that support the new format. See, for example, http://phpinsider.com/smarty-forum/viewtopic.php?t=8500.

PHP's existing locale library appears to support localized day and month names, but apparently not different starting years.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[choobin84]

classes/submission/sectionEditor/SectionEditorAction.inc.php

thank you Alec.
but i can not find taht file.
َAre you sure that file is in OCS ?

[asmecher]

Hi choobin84,

Oops -- classes/submission/sectionEditor/SectionEditorAction.inc.php is for OJS. The OCS equivalent is classes/submission/trackDirector/TrackDirectorAction.inc.php.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[msaghaei]

Following is a work around to have Jalali calendar in Farsi pages of OJS:

1. Create a jalali folder in classes (lowercase)
2. Place the file Jalali.inc.php in that folder (attached here)
3. in the file TemplateManager.in.php:
Includ 'smarty/plugins/modifier.date_format.php' at the beginning

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require_once('smarty/plugins/modifier.date_format.php');

Add a register_modifier to the list of midifiers

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$this->register_modifier('date_format', array(&$this, 'dateFormat'));

Add the date_format function:

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   /**
    * Override the built-in smarty date_format modifier if tje locale
    * is in array @inArray.
    */
   function dateFormat($date, $format = '%b %e, %Y', $default_date = '', $locale = null, $inArray = array('fa_IR'))    {
       if (!isset($locale)) $locale = Locale::getLocale();
       if (!in_array($locale, $inArray))
           return smarty_modifier_date_format($date, $format, $default_date);
       import('jalali.Jalali');
       $jcal = new Jalali();
       return $jcal->dt_format($date, $format);
   }


4. in the file smarty/plugins/modifier.date_format.php (seems to be a bug):
change the require_once line to

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require_once('shared.make_timestamp.php')

Mahmoud

[asmecher]

Hi all,

FYI, I've converted Mahmoud's code into a plugin; see http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3538. Thanks for contributing, Mahmoud!

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[choobin84]

http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3538. Thanks for contributing, Mahmoud!

Hi all,
Thanks Alec,
I used that plugin,but no any changes occured.

In TimeLine form that manage the conference timeline ,i want change the september into 'Shahrivar'="شهریور"

I enabled the Jalali plugin.

[asmecher]

Hi choobin84,

The Jalali plugin only affects the display of dates, not the date select tools. However, if your server supports Farsi dates and you're using the Farsi locale, the Smarty date selector should include translated month names. If you are maintaining your own server, make sure that the fa_IR locale is enabled in /etc/locale.gen. You may need to run locale-gen after uncommenting this line. (Note that these instructions will depend largely on what kind of server you are running.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[ramon]

Hello all,
I'm not sure if I should post this here.
I may eventually do the worst thing in forums and cross-post (here) just to reinforce the point.
The point is that date-time configurations should be defined by language.
This means that a single option to define the formats is not enough for a multilingual system.
I believe the simplest way to do this is to create separate config files for languages, loaded when language changes (maybe even created on-the-fly after installation) and a general config file with the basics.
Then, the administrator would have a new option to configure each option for each language.
I think this makes more sense, although not sure how or if it will/should be implemented.
The date-time config may also be implemented as a Pluing, if possible...