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Ry-
Ry-

Reputation: 224942

Getting localized day of week

I'd like to get the names of the days of the weeks in JavaScript, localized to the user's current language; preferably with something a bit nicer than what I'm using now:

var weekDays = [];
var d = new Date();

while(d.getDay() > 0) {
    d.setDate(d.getDate() + 1);
}

while(weekDays.length < 7) {
    weekDays.push(d.toLocaleDateString().match(/\w+/)[0]);
    d.setDate(d.getDate() + 1);
}

Is there an easy way to do this? Or am I just going to have to provide date strings for as many locales as I can?

Upvotes: 26

Views: 30340

Answers (2)

vlk
vlk

Reputation: 2769

Standard way to translate Date is to use method Date.toLocaleString(), for example:

d = new Date();
// short date in browser language
console.log(d.toLocaleString(window.navigator.language, {
  weekday: 'short'
}));
// long date in specific language
console.log(d.toLocaleString('sk-SK', {
  weekday: 'long'
}));

Upvotes: 64

user1391380
user1391380

Reputation:

Take a look at datejs, it handles localization very nicely. It comes with a lot of globalization setups. You just load the globalization setup of your current CultureInfo and datejs takes care of the rest.

Javascript Date Localization

Upvotes: 2

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