@@ -1,15 +1,21 @@
11# import htmlentitydefs
2+import locale
3+import dateutil.parser
4+import cStringIO
5+import csv
6+import os
7+import re
8+
29from codecs import getincrementalencoder
310from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
411from random import choice
512
613from searx.version import VERSION_STRING
714from searx import settings
15+from searx import logger
816
9−import cStringIO
10−import csv
11−import os
12−import re
17+
18+logger = logger.getChild('utils')
1319
1420ua_versions = ('29.0',
1521 '30.0',
@@ -181,3 +187,22 @@ def get_result_templates(base_path):
181187 f = os.path.join(directory[base_path_length:], filename)
182188 result_templates.add(f)
183189 return result_templates
190+
191+
192+def format_date_by_locale(date_string, locale_string):
193+ # strftime works only on dates after 1900
194+ parsed_date = dateutil.parser.parse(date_string)
195+ if parsed_date.year <= 1900:
196+ return parsed_date.isoformat().split('T')[0]
197+
198+ orig_locale = locale.getlocale()[0]
199+ try:
200+ locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, locale_string)
201+ except:
202+ logger.warning('cannot set locale: {0}'.format(locale_string))
203+ formatted_date = parsed_date.strftime(locale.nl_langinfo(locale.D_FMT))
204+ try:
205+ locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, orig_locale)
206+ except:
207+ logger.warning('cannot set original locale: {0}'.format(orig_locale))
208+ return formatted_date