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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-77366

Consider completely deprecating all uses of strftime (locale) formats in core

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      This is sort of followup of MDL-75100, where we provided compatibility with strftime() and its formats, by implementing core_date::strftime() that, transparently, converts all formats between the strftime() (locale) ones and the Date/DateTime... (intl/icu) ones.

      So, while everything continues working 100% the same with PHP 8.1 (where strftime() has been deprecated) and up... because of the custom core_date::strftime() implementation above... long term... we need a good plan to get rid of all those locale-based formats once and forever.

      That includes:

      1. Looking for all formats in codebase.
      2. Looking for all formats in lang strings in all languages.
      3. Converting everything to the new int/icu formats.
      4. Move all uses of core_date::strftime() to use native Date/DateTime... functions, directly or using another core_date::format() new method.
      5. Finally, deprecate (and remove) core_date::strftime()
      6. Done, we are 100% free from locale formats forever. Party!

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            stronk7 Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)
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