Hello! Is there a way to change the language of the date in a text field? %<DocumentText("data")>% returns dates in english which is the language rhino is currently set to. But I would like to have them in my language, with out having to do it manually or changing Rhino interface to portuguese. Is…

[image] Filipe_Brandao: Is there a way to change the language of the date in a text field? Hi - that is not currently possible, no. I asked for locale-specific output in RH-42961 a while back but that is on hold pending - as I read it - user demand. I will add your request to that item. (No…

Are you storing a date in your document user text?

I was. In the meantime I learned that there is no need to do that. I can just call current time directly. But it will be useful for other purposes, such as keeping dates of project phases.

Thanks! Its a make or break feature. I can’t deliver documents to customers and municipalities with dates in a foreign language!

@Trav we could probably handle functions like Date by providing an overload that accepts a language tag. Something like Date("", "es-ES") to format for Spanish Would that make sense?

That would be amazing! Support for pt-PT, please :smile:

Yeah, we could do that as an over load or just have the date time return correctly for the current culture. https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-57361

The date currently uses the culture that Rhino’s appsettings are set to. I’ve been thinking about a possibility of a new document property that forces all text field evaluations to use a specific culture, but even if we added that having an overload that forced a specific language wouldn’t get in th…

RH-57361 is fixed in the latest WIP

Text field date language

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brian (Brian Gillespie) March 11, 2020, 3:05pm 10

RH-57362 is fixed in the latest WIP

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