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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-75100

Migrate away from use of strftime and friends

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      The strftime, and gmstrftime functions have been deprecated and will be removed in 9.0.

      See https://php.watch/versions/8.1/strftime-gmstrftime-deprecated for further information.

      We will need to get on this ASAP and should take this opportunity to improve the core_date class (and/or replace it if relevant).

      The recognised replacement is to use the Intl library, which uses Unicode CLDR data rather than system locale data and alleviates other issues.

      With the right API design we can also hopefully improve our testing integrations.

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          caused a regression

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-77662 Translation error

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Open

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-76537 Encoding problem in month names on Windows server

          • Major - Major loss of function, incorrect output
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-78151 The setGregorianChange() error appears on the profile page when the Kyiv time zone is selected.

          • Major - Major loss of function, incorrect output
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-76470 Incorrect locale detection in core_date::strftime on windows

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed
          has been marked as being related by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-77366 Consider completely deprecating all uses of strftime (locale) formats in core

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Open

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-77103 Function strftime() is deprecated since PHP 8.1

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed
          will help resolve

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-75626 Some recent change in AM/PM handling is causing Mac tests to fail

          • Major - Major loss of function, incorrect output
          • Open

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-71549 workaround for %p in strftime on MacOS

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Open

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              marina Marina Glancy
              dobedobedoh Andrew Lyons
              David Woloszyn David Woloszyn
              Jun Pataleta Jun Pataleta
              CiBoT CiBoT
              Adrian Greeve, David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo
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