Custom Date in different languages

[andonir90417131]

Hi all! 🙂

I'm trying to populate a field with an automatic date.

Since I need different PDF's with different languages I thought an array specifying the name of the month would be an idea. Unfortunatelly I can't seem to find any solutions.

 
The one thread I found with f.value = util.printd("mmmm d, yyyy", newDate()); worked, but only in english 😕 

has someone an idea how I could do it?

I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

thank you in advance for your help 🙂 

[bebarth]

Hi,

If you write:

event.value=util.printd("date(en){MMMM}",new Date(),true);

you will get the month in English, but if you write:

event.value=util.printd("date(fr){MMMM}",new Date(),true);

you will get it in French. So if you write:

theLanguage=this.app.language.substr(0,2).toLowerCase();
event.value=util.printd("date("+theLanguage+"){MMMM}",new Date(),true);

you will get the month in the language of your Acrobat application.

https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/library/jsapiref/JS_API_AcroJS.html#language

...this is at a capital letter the same thing as:

event.value=util.printd("mmmm",new Date());

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[bebarth · Accepted solution]

Here is an example with several other languages.

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[andonir90417131]

Thank you so much😁 this really helped and gave me the solution to my problem 😁👏🏻🥳

[JR Boulay]

You can use this free Date picker, it works with 28 languages:

https://www.abracadabrapdf.net/utilitaires/utilities-in-english/magicdate-picker/