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strftime

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strftime Formatiert eine Zeit-/Datumsangabe nach den lokalen Einstellungen

Beschreibung:

string strftime ( string $format [, int $ Timestamp ] )

Gibt einen String zurück, der den angegebenen Formatierungs-Merkmalen entspricht. Dabei wird der gegebene Timestamp / Zeitstempel oder - falls dieser fehlt - die momentane lokale Zeit benutzt. Der Monats- und Wochentagsname wird entsprechend des per setlocale() eingestellten Wertes gesetzt.

Nachfolgend die im Formatierungsstring gültigen / bekannten Platzhalter:

  • %a - abgekürzter Name des Wochentages, abhängig von der gesetzten Umgebung
  • %A - ausgeschriebener Name des Wochentages, abhängig von der gesetzten Umgebung
  • %b - abgekürzter Name des Monats, abhängig von der gesetzten Umgebung
  • %B - ausgeschriebener Name des Monats, abhängig von der gesetzten Umgebung
  • %c - Wiedergabewerte für Datum und Zeit, abhängig von der gesetzten Umgebung
  • %C - Jahrhundert (Jahr geteilt durch 100, gekürzt auf Integer, Wertebereich 00 bis 99)
  • %d - Tag des Monats als Zahl (Bereich 01 bis 31)
  • %D - so wie %m/%d/%y
  • %e - Tag des Monats als Dezimal-Wert, einstelligen Werten wird ein Leerzeichen voran gestellt (Wertebereich ´ 1´ bis ´31´)
  • %g - wie %G, aber ohne Jahrhundert.
  • %G - Das vierstellige Jahr entsprechend der ISO Wochennummer (siehe %V). Das gleiche Format und der gleiche Wert wie bei %Y. Besonderheit: entspricht die ISO Wochennummer dem vorhergehenden oder folgenden Jahr, wird dieses Jahr verwendet.
  • %h - so wie %b
  • %H - Stunde als Zahl im 24-Stunden-Format (Bereich 00 bis 23)
  • %I - Stunde als Zahl im 12-Stunden-Format (Bereich 01 bis 12)
  • %j - Tag des Jahres als Zahl (Bereich 001 bis 366)
  • %m - Monat als Zahl (Bereich 01 bis 12)
  • %M - Minute als Dezimal-Wert
  • %n - neue Zeile
  • %p - entweder `am' oder `pm' (abhängig von der gesetzten Umgebung) oder die entsprechenden Zeichenketten der gesetzten Umgebung
  • %r - Zeit im Format a.m. oder p.m.
  • %R - Zeit in der 24-Stunden-Formatierung
  • %S - Sekunden als Dezimal-Wert
  • %t - Tabulator
  • %T - aktuelle Zeit, genau wie %H:%M:%S
  • %u - Tag der Woche als Dezimal-Wert [1,7], dabei ist 1 der Montag.
    Warnung

    Sun Solaris scheint mit dem Sonntag als 1 zu starten, obwohl ISO 9889:1999 (der aktuelle C Standard) klar festlegt, dass es der Montag sein sollte.

  • %U - Nummer der Woche des aktuellen Jahres als Dezimal-Wert, beginnend mit dem ersten Sonntag als erstem Tag der ersten Woche.
  • %V - Kalenderwoche (nach ISO 8601:1988) des aktuellen Jahres. Als Dezimal-Zahl mit dem Wertebereich 01 bis 53, wobei die Woche 01 die erste Woche mit mindestens 4 Tagen im aktuellen Jahr ist. Die Woche beginnt montags (nicht sonntags). (Benutzen Sie %G or %g für die Jahreskomponente, die der Wochennummer für den gegebenen Timestamp entspricht.)
  • %w - Wochentag als Dezimal-Wert, Sonntag ist 0
  • %W - Nummer der Woche des aktuellen Jahres, beginnend mit dem ersten Montag als erstem Tag der ersten Woche.
  • %x - bevorzugte Datumswiedergabe (ohne Zeit), abhängig von der gesetzten Umgebung.
  • %X - bevorzugte Zeitwiedergabe (ohne Datum), abhängig von der gesetzten Umgebung.
  • %y - Jahr als 2-stellige-Zahl (Bereich 00 bis 99)
  • %Y - Jahr als 4-stellige-Zahl inklusive des Jahrhunderts
  • %Z - Zeitzone, Name oder eine Abkürzung
  • %% - ein %-Zeichen

Hinweis: Es ist durchaus möglich, dass Ihre C-Bibliothek nicht alle angegebenen Formatierungszeichen erkennt. In diesem Fall werden diese Zeichen von der PHP-Funktion strftime() nicht unterstützt. Zusätzlich unterstützen nicht alle Plattformen negative Werte eines Timestamps, deshalb könnte der Wertebereich eines Datums durch den Beginn der Unix Epoche begrenzt sein. Das bedeutet, dass z.B. %e, %T, %R und %D (und vielleicht noch weitere) und Zeitangaben vor dem Jan 1, 1970 auf Windowssystemen, einigen Linuxdisrtibutionen und einigen anderen Betriebssytemen nicht funktionieren. Für Windowsbetriebssysteme finden Sie eine komplette Übersicht der gültigen / bekannten Platzhalter im Formatierungsstring auf dieser » MSDN Webseite.

Beispiel #1 strftime() locale Beispiel

<?php
setlocale
(LC_TIME"C");
echo 
strftime("%A");
setlocale(LC_TIME"fi_FI");
echo 
strftime(" in Finnish is %A,");
setlocale(LC_TIME"fr_FR");
echo 
strftime(" in French %A and");
setlocale(LC_TIME"de_DE");
echo 
strftime(" in German %A.\n");
?>
Dieses Beispiel funktioniert nur, wenn auf Ihrem System die entsprechenden Locale-Codes installiert sind.

Hinweis: %G und %V basieren auf ISO 8601:1988 Wochennummern und können unerwartete (obwohl korrekte) Ergebnisse liefern, wenn Sie das Nummernsystem nicht gründlich verstehen. Sehen Sie weiter oben bei %V nach und beachten Sie die folgenden Beispiele.

Beispiel #2 ISO 8601:1988 Wochennummer Beispiel

<?php
/*     December 2002 / January 2003
ISOWk  M   Tu  W   Thu F   Sa  Su
----- ----------------------------
51     16  17  18  19  20  21  22 
52     23  24  25  26  27  28  29
1      30  31   1   2   3   4   5
2       6   7   8   9  10  11  12
3      13  14  15  16  17  18  19   */

// Ausgabe: 12/28/2002 - %V,%G,%Y = 52,2002,2002
echo "12/28/2002 - %V,%G,%Y = " strftime("%V,%G,%Y"strtotime("12/28/2002")) . "\n";

// Ausgabe: 12/30/2002 - %V,%G,%Y = 1,2003,2002
echo "12/30/2002 - %V,%G,%Y = " strftime("%V,%G,%Y"strtotime("12/30/2002")) . "\n";

// Ausgabe: 1/3/2003 - %V,%G,%Y = 1,2003,2003
echo "1/3/2003 - %V,%G,%Y = " strftime("%V,%G,%Y",strtotime("1/3/2003")) . "\n";

// Ausgabe: 1/10/2003 - %V,%G,%Y = 2,2003,2003
echo "1/10/2003 - %V,%G,%Y = " strftime("%V,%G,%Y",strtotime("1/10/2003")) . "\n";



/*     December 2004 / January 2005
ISOWk  M   Tu  W   Thu F   Sa  Su
----- ----------------------------
51     13  14  15  16  17  18  19
52     20  21  22  23  24  25  26
53     27  28  29  30  31   1   2
1       3   4   5   6   7   8   9
2      10  11  12  13  14  15  16   */

// Ausgabe: 12/23/2004 - %V,%G,%Y = 52,2004,2004
echo "12/23/2004 - %V,%G,%Y = " strftime("%V,%G,%Y",strtotime("12/23/2004")) . "\n";

// Ausgabe: 12/31/2004 - %V,%G,%Y = 53,2004,2004
echo "12/31/2004 - %V,%G,%Y = " strftime("%V,%G,%Y",strtotime("12/31/2004")) . "\n";

// Ausgabe: 1/2/2005 - %V,%G,%Y = 53,2004,2005
echo "1/2/2005 - %V,%G,%Y = " strftime("%V,%G,%Y",strtotime("1/2/2005")) . "\n";

// Ausgabe: 1/3/2005 - %V,%G,%Y = 1,2005,2005
echo "1/3/2005 - %V,%G,%Y = " strftime("%V,%G,%Y",strtotime("1/3/2005")) . "\n";

?>

Siehe auch setlocale(), mktime() und die » Open Group Spezifikation von strftime().



strptime> <mktime
Last updated: Fri, 05 Sep 2008
 
add a note add a note User Contributed Notes
strftime
buana95 at yahoo dot com
21-Aug-2008 05:51
For windows user:

If you unsuccessfully change date/time format to your locale country using xx_XX format, try using XXX format or ISO-639 country codes format.

See complete list for ISO-639 here: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm

For example:

<?php
setlocale
(LC_ALL, 'IND');
echo
strftime("Today in Indonesia is %A");
?>
vincent at vent dot be
18-Aug-2008 01:26
Many of the conversion specifiers don't work with the Win32 implementation. Check this list to see which ones will work:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fe06s4ak(VS.71).aspx
contact_ at _line-o_ dot _de
09-May-2008 10:45
You can get MS locale strings from here now:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/cdax410z.aspx

Search for "country codes" or "region codes", if they move it again!

(see below...)
Josue R.
09-Mar-2008 04:36
Here's a simple version for date formating i use between displaying in HTML and converting back to MYSQL format:

<?php
function format_date($original='', $format="%m/%d/%Y") {
   
$format = ($format=='date' ? "%m-%d-%Y" : $format);
   
$format = ($format=='datetime' ? "%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S" : $format);
   
$format = ($format=='mysql-date' ? "%Y-%m-%d" : $format);
   
$format = ($format=='mysql-datetime' ? "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" : $format);
    return (!empty(
$original) ? strftime($format, strtotime($original)) : "" );
}
?>

example (in HTML or webapp):
[grab from database]...
$dbase_stored_date = "2007-03-15";
$display_html_date = format_date($dbase_stored_date);
... displays as "03/15/2007"

example (saving form via on POST/GET):
$update_date = format_date($_POST['display_html_date'], 'mysql-date');
// converts back to '2007-03-15'
.... [your mysql update here]

Don't forget to sanitize your POST/GET's   =)
Anonymous
25-Feb-2008 01:08
%u doesn't work under MS Windows. But getDate()['wday'] works as a perfekt workaround.
Anonymous
23-Feb-2008 08:01
If the second parameter is null, PHP treats it as 0, so strftime return something like 01/01/1970. Be aware of this.
jerome dot place at free dot fr
07-Nov-2007 09:55
Here is a function to convert dates before 1970, very useful if you are still using php 4 (it is supported in php5) :

<?php
# convert a date to special format
# $date is like 2000-01-01 00:00:00
# $format : refer to strftime function
function convert_date($date,$format) {   
    if(
$date=='0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR $date=='0000-00-00' OR $date=='' OR $date==NULL) {
        return
'';
    }
    else {
       
$year=substr($date,0,4);
        if(
phpversion() < 5.0 AND $year < 1970) {
           
           
$new_date=substr_replace($date,'1980',0,4); # we replace the year by a year after 1970       
           
$new_format=eregi_replace('%a|%A|%u','',$format); # we remove days information from the format because they would be wrong
           
$new_date=strftime($new_format,strtotime($new_date)); # we convert the date
           
$new_date=eregi_replace('1980',$year,$new_date); # we put back the real year
           
return $new_date;
        }
        else {
            return
strftime($format,strtotime($date));
        }
    }
}
?>
josh dot helzer at gmail dot com
19-Sep-2007 04:39
If strlen($format) >= 1024, the output of strftime($format) is the empty string.
nielsvan den berge at hotmail dot com
31-Aug-2007 03:43
A small function to get the first weekday of the month.
For example the first monday of the month, or the first friday, etc.

<?php 
 
/**
   *
   *  Gets the first weekday of that month and year
   *
   *  @param  int   The day of the week (0 = sunday, 1 = monday ... , 6 = saturday)
   *  @param  int   The month (if false use the current month)
   *  @param  int   The year (if false use the current year)
   *
   *  @return int   The timestamp of the first day of that month
   *
   **/ 
 
function get_first_day($day_number=1, $month=false, $year=false)
  {
   
$month  = ($month === false) ? strftime("%m"): $month;
   
$year   = ($year === false) ? strftime("%Y"): $year;
   
   
$first_day = 1 + ((7+$day_number - strftime("%w", mktime(0,0,0,$month, 1, $year)))%7);
 
    return
mktime(0,0,0,$month, $first_day, $year);
  }

// this will output the first wednesday of january 2007 (wed 03-01-2007)
echo strftime("%a %d-%m-%Y", get_first_day(3, 1, 2007));
?>
ma
28-Aug-2007 02:58
note, that for some languages you MUST set LC_ALL instead of LC_TIME.

note that you further have to explicitly define your output-encoding (default is ISO-8859-1 [which makes problems for some languages])!

at least i expirienced this behaviour on a german WinXP-PHP4 environment:

<?php

// does not work - gives question marks:
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'RUS'); // ISO Alpha-3 is supported by xp
echo strftime('%A', time());

?>

<?php

// DOES work:
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8'); // you could also use another charset here if iconv isn't installed on your system.

echo setlocale(LC_ALL, 'RUS').': ';
echo
iconv('windows-1251', 'UTF-8', strftime('%A', time()))."\n";

?>
ben dot holland at thirdlight dot com
21-Jun-2007 02:03
This little function allows you to provide a reasonably human readable string and convert to a timestamp - see example in comments below.

I find it far more useful than having to remember all the '%' modifiers. Am also well aware of its failings but it works in a lot of the real life situations I've come across.

<?php
function AmazingStringFromTime($str, $nTimestamp = null)
{
   
// This function reads a human readable string representation of dates. e.g.
    // DD MM YYYY => 01 07 1978
    // DDD D MMM YY => Mon 1 Jul 78
   
   
$arrPairs = array(
   
"DDDD"  => "%A",
   
"DDD"   => "%a",
   
"DD"    => "%d",
   
"D"     => "%e", // has leading space: ' 1', ' 2', etc for single digit days
   
"MMMM"  => "%B",
   
"MMM"   => "%b",
   
"MM"    => "%m",
   
"YYYY"  => "%Y",
   
"YY"    => "%y",
   
"HH"    => "%H",
   
"hh"    => "%I",
   
"mm"    => "%M",
   
"ss"    => "%S",
    );
   
   
$str = str_replace(array_keys($arrPairs), array_values($arrPairs), $str);
    return
strftime($str, $nTimestamp);
}
?>
th1nk3r at gmail dot DELETETHIS dot com
20-Jan-2007 06:35
Function strftime() use the locales installed in your system (linux).

If you are like me and only leave in the system the locales you use normally (en_US and your own language locale, like es_ES), you'll only be able to use the locales installed. If your application is translated to other languages, you need these locales too.

The name of the locale in your system is important too. This can be a problem when you want to distribute the app.

If you have this locales in your system:
en_US/ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8
es_ES/ISO-8859-1
es_ES@euro/ISO-8859-15
es_ES.UTF-8/UTF-8
es_ES@euro/UTF-8

and use setlocale('es_ES'), the result will use the iso-8859-1 charset even if you have all your system, files and configuration options in UTF-8. To receive content in UTF-8, in this example, you need to use setlocale('es_ES.UTF-8') or setlocale('es_ES.UTF-8@UTF-8').

The definition of locales can change from one system to another, and so the charset from the results.
denis at spiralsolutions dot com
02-Nov-2006 09:07
(in addition to Andy's post)
To get a RFC 2822 date (used in RSS) of the current local time :

echo strftime ("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z") ;

Note: option %z / %Z - work different on Windows platform, for example
output of this code line can be:
Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:54:59 Jerusalem Standard Time (on Windows)
Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:54:59 +0200                   (on Linux)

[red. It is much smarter to use date(DATE_RSS); here]
Moritz Stoltenburg
17-Aug-2006 05:45
In response to the note supplied by "Arpad Borsos":

I think the whole truth is that the output of strftime() considers whatever you stated with setlocale().

<?php

/* Berlin is in Germany */
$locale = setlocale (LC_ALL, 'de_DE.UTF-8');

/* Output: Donnerstag, 23. März 2006 (and hopefully UTF-8 ;) */
echo strftime ("%A, %d. %B %Y", strtotime('2006-03-23'));

/* try different possible locale names for german as of PHP 4.3.0 */
$locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.UTF-8', 'de_DE.UTF-8@euro', 'de_DE');
echo
"Preferred locale for german on this system is '$locale'";

?>

Check the documentation of setlocale() for more.
setlocale (LC_ALL, 'de_DE.UTF-8') always worked fine for me.
Arpad Borsos
17-Aug-2006 01:32
Please note that the strftime output is not encoded in utf8 so you have to use utf8_encode() if you want to print localized month names e.g. for German "März"

[red. this depends on the platform though - some Windows locales *do* use UTF-8 for example]
reeveboy at hotmail dot com
27-Jul-2006 06:01
To mcallister, phloe and anyone else who want to get on the getDaySuffix() band wagon:

There are already functions to do this. All you really have to do is:

<?php echo date("jS", mktime(0,0,0,1,$myDay,2006)); ?>

Obviously, the only part of mktime that really matters is $myDay.
Moritz Stoltenburg
22-Jul-2006 07:54
In response to the note supplied by "segfault nycap rr com".

Here is a quicker and easier way:

Use the MySQL Time Function TIME_FORMAT() in your query:

mysql> SELECT TIME_FORMAT('14:35:00', '%l:%i %p');

Or try '%l' in PHP, it works on most systems and is part of the Open Group specification of strftime().

<?php

echo strftime('%l:%M %p', strtotime('14:35:00'));

?>
andy at yatescentral dot com
16-May-2006 05:47
When using strftime to generate time stamps for inclusion in  RSS feeds, be sure to use %z for the timezone (RFC-822 format) rather than %Z -- for some reason, %Z fails to validate.
posenato at sciNO dot univrSPAM dot it
15-May-2006 08:37
To partialy correct Neo's on RFC 850 date...

RFC 850 is obsolete by RFC 1036.

In HTTP header, RFC 1123 is the first choice: it has a fixed length format and 4 digits year.

Therefore, the correct format is:

gmstrftime ("%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z", time ());

Output example: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT

[red. Use date(DATE_RFC850, time()); instead. (Or DATE_RFC1123 or DATE_RFC1036)]
Jon Keating
18-Jan-2006 02:49
Under windows if you are using Japanese version, you must use the following code:

setlocale(LC_ALL, "Japanese_Japan.20932") for EUC
setlocale(LC_ALL, "Japanese_Japan.932") for SJIS

I found the following page that helped me with this issue:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=8329
php at REMOVEMEkennel17 dot co dot uk
20-Dec-2005 01:29
To correct an error in the above list of formatting codes:

%p - either `AM' or `PM' according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale (note result is in capitals)
%P - either `am' or `pm' according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale (note result is in lower case)

In addition, the following codes seem to return a value on my system (Linux, Apache/1.3.33, PHP/4.4.1), but are not documented above.  I have included the result given by passing them to gmstrftime() with a timestamp of 0 (unix epoch).  gmstrftime() was used to avoid timezone/DST differences.

%F: "1970-01-01" (appears to be an SQL-formatted version of the date)
%k: "0" (seems to be the hour in 24-hour clock, without leading zeros (space-padded))
%l: "12" (seems to be the hour in 12-hour clock, without leading zeros (space-padded))
%s: "-3600"

%s seems to be the Unix timestamp passed to the function, but somehow based on the current locale/TZ settings (even in gmstrftime()). 
On my system strftime("%H:%M:%S", 0) returns "01:00:00", and strftime("%s", 0) returns "0".  Using gmstrftime() I get "00:00:00" and "-3600" respectively.
jw at jwscripts dot com
29-May-2005 03:32
The following function implements the conversion specifiers which are not supported on Win32 platforms:

(Note: the specifiers %V, %G and %g can be implemented using other functions described in this section)

<?php

function strftime_win32($format, $ts = null) {
    if (!
$ts) $ts = time();

   
$mapping = array(
       
'%C' => sprintf("%02d", date("Y", $ts) / 100),
       
'%D' => '%m/%d/%y',
       
'%e' => sprintf("%' 2d", date("j", $ts)),
       
'%h' => '%b',
       
'%n' => "\n",
       
'%r' => date("h:i:s", $ts) . " %p",
       
'%R' => date("H:i", $ts),
       
'%t' => "\t",
       
'%T' => '%H:%M:%S',
       
'%u' => ($w = date("w", $ts)) ? $w : 7
   
);
   
$format = str_replace(
       
array_keys($mapping),
       
array_values($mapping),
       
$format
   
);

    return
strftime($format, $ts);
}

?>
patrick at codeministry dot dk
20-Apr-2005 11:50
For freebsd user:

You can find the full list of your locale under /usr/share/locale.
For example da_DK.ISO8859-1 under this directory will set up the locale to danish.
bohac at smartcat dot cz
19-Mar-2005 07:36
i had to use the czech representation of time on unix machine, running debian and linux version of apache with php 4

for me the best solution was to use this code:

<?php
     setlocale
(LC_ALL, 'cs_CZ.iso88592');
?>

then you can do everything in czech language with correct iso-8859-2 encoding ;D
Aaron
25-Jan-2005 10:10
%k will give you %H (hour, 24-hour clock) with the leading zero replaced by a space.  I have only tested this on one linux system so far, it may not work on windows or other linux builds.
michiel1978 at hotmail dot com
06-Oct-2004 11:31
As said in these comments, Windows strftime() doesn't support %e. However, to achieve a similar effect (not 100%) you can use %#d. The # flag will remove the leading zero, so you do get single digits, but without the space that would be added by %e in other environments.
neo at gothic-chat d0t de
25-Jun-2004 08:27
To get a RFC 850 date (used in HTTP) of the current time:

gmstrftime ("%A %d-%b-%y %T %Z", time ());

This will get for example:
Friday 25-Jun-04 03:30:23 GMT

Please note that times in HTTP-headers _must_ be GMT, so use gmstrftime() instead of strftime().
adan at cr72 dot com
10-Jun-2004 01:48
For Spanish:
<?php
setlocale
(LC_ALL, "sp");
echo
strftime("%d. %B %Y");
?>
vminarik at ips-ag dot cz
10-Sep-2001 03:02
Note that setting LC_TIME is not enough for some locales under Windows, e.g. Czech, because there are some characters not contained in default (US) character set like '�' (c with hook), '�' (r with hook).


If you run Apache as regular application and have set your locale to Czech (ControlPanel/RegionalOptions), there is no problem and 'September' is correctly translated as 'z���', 'Thursday' as '�tvrtek'.
But if you run Apache as service, you get 'z�r�', and 'ctvrtek'.
To get things work as you expect you must set LC_CTYPE beside LC_TIME, or set LC_ALL.

<?php
  $locale
= 'Czech_Czech.1250';
 
$res = setlocale( 'LC_CTYPE', $locale); //important
 
$res = setlocale( 'LC_TIME', $locale);
  echo
strftime( '%A %m. %B %Y', mktime( 0,0,0,9,6,2001));
?>
verdy_p at wanadoo dot fr
22-Jul-2001 02:33
Beware of '%D':
the comment shown expects that this is the same as '%m/%d/%y'.

This is wrong: '%D' is only expected to returned an abbreviated numeric date according to the current locale:
In the German locale '%D' is '%y.%m.%d'
In the French locale '%D' is '%d/%m/%y'

The locale rules still apply to %D as with '%A'...

Beware that some C libraries do not support '%D' and/or '%A'  or do not support them accordingly. Using strftime() is then system-dependant, because PHP use the C function provided by the system on which it runs.
spamyenot at example dot com
18-Jul-2001 08:09
Solaris 2.6 and 7 define the
%u specifier differently than noted here. Day 1 is Sunday, not Monday. Solaris 8 gets it right.

Jim
zmajeed at cup dot hp dot com
23-Jul-1999 12:14
Locale names are OS dependent. HP-UX 11.0, for example, has three
German locales, de_DE.roman8, de_DE.iso88591, and
de_DE.iso885915@euro.
The command locale -a will display all available locales on a system.

So on HP-UX, to get German dates:
setlocale("LC_TIME", "de_DE.roman8");
print(strftime("%A\n"));

strptime> <mktime
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