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-rw-r--r--searx/utils.py33
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/searx/utils.py b/searx/utils.py
index 5bd1ced4d..0b4de9410 100644
--- a/searx/utils.py
+++ b/searx/utils.py
@@ -1,15 +1,21 @@
# import htmlentitydefs
+import locale
+import dateutil.parser
+import cStringIO
+import csv
+import os
+import re
+
from codecs import getincrementalencoder
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
from random import choice
from searx.version import VERSION_STRING
from searx import settings
+from searx import logger
-import cStringIO
-import csv
-import os
-import re
+
+logger = logger.getChild('utils')
ua_versions = ('29.0',
'30.0',
@@ -181,3 +187,22 @@ def get_result_templates(base_path):
f = os.path.join(directory[base_path_length:], filename)
result_templates.add(f)
return result_templates
+
+
+def format_date_by_locale(date_string, locale_string):
+ # strftime works only on dates after 1900
+ parsed_date = dateutil.parser.parse(date_string)
+ if parsed_date.year <= 1900:
+ return parsed_date.isoformat().split('T')[0]
+
+ orig_locale = locale.getlocale()[0]
+ try:
+ locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, locale_string)
+ except:
+ logger.warning('cannot set locale: {0}'.format(locale_string))
+ formatted_date = parsed_date.strftime(locale.nl_langinfo(locale.D_FMT))
+ try:
+ locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, orig_locale)
+ except:
+ logger.warning('cannot set original locale: {0}'.format(orig_locale))
+ return formatted_date