PHP strftime outputs wrong format despite correct timezone

Question

I configured my timezone to Europe/Paris in php.ini. When executing date_default_timezone_get() I do get the correct value.

Then, I expect strftime(\'

Answer 1

The time zone has no effect on how dates and times are presented, for that you need to set the locale. There are no standards for locale names, but fortunately PHP's setlocale() function will take multiple locale names, stopping at the first successful one.

// just a few common name formats
setlocale(LC_TIME, ["fr_FR.utf8", "fr_FR@euro", "fr_UTF8", "fr_FR", "french"]);
echo strftime("%d %B %Y", time());