Dear Maud,

We've just added support for French date formatting with a recent version of BaseX. If you run the following query with BaseX 9.7.2 …

let $date := xs:dateTime('1723-11-25T12:00:00')

return format-dateTime(xs:dateTime($date), '[D] [Mn] [Y]', 'fr', (), ())

… you should get "25 novembre 1723" as result.

All the very best,

Christian

Maud Ingarao <maud.ingarao@ens-lyon.fr> schrieb am Di., 24. Mai 2022, 17:35:

Hi everybody !

We need to convert dates in "human" language and therefore we use the following :

let $date := 1723-11-25T12:00:00
fn:format-dateTime(xs:dateTime($date), '[D] [Mn] [Y]', 'fr', (), ())

But we get : [Language: en]25 november 1723

The date remains in english with [Language: en] before, whereas fn:format-dateTime(xs:dateTime($date), '[D] [Mn] [Y]', 'de', (), ()) works and we get the date in German.

We checked java:java.util.Locale amongst which we find "fr" : "nn, ar, bg, ke, an, ds, zu, am, fr, ti, bo..."

And we have downloaded the lucene-snowball-2.9.4.jar file in lib/

Thank you so much for your help !

Maud & Nathalie :-)