Coming from Rails, we used to have the feature where we could specify date / time / timestamp formats in our translation files, and then use simple helper function to convert date/time/timestamp to current user’s locales using that template. We were also able to specify variants, say :short date for…

Check out: https://github.com/kipcole9/cldr_dates_times#date-time-and-datetime-localization-formatting I haven’t used it yet but this looks really comprehensive.

Localize date/time/datetime format according to local rules

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kip October 24, 2018, 8:37am 4

Here are the links to the packages in the ex_cldr family latest release. I can see the benefit to a tighter integration between Gettext and ex_cldr and would welcome any thoughts along those lines.

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