Translating i18nDateTimeInterface::diffForHumans

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Is there a way to translate the result of the method diffForHumans() to another language on CakePHP 4.3? I’ve been searching and found this:

So this is what I’ve done

  1. bin/cake i18n extract --extract-core yes
  2. Modified cake.pot and moved it into resources/locale/es/cake.po
  3. bin/cake schema_cache clear
  4. i18n::setLocale(‘es_AR’);
  5. echo $record-timestamp->diffForHumans();
  6. Also created a new instance of RelativeTimeFormatter and used diffForHumans

Now, some translations are working as expected, like:

#: ./vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Validation/Validator.php:2559
#: ./vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/View/Form/ArrayContext.php:249
msgid “This field cannot be left empty”
msgstr “Debe completar este campo”

But everything about RelativeTimeFormatter is not:

#: ./vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/I18n/RelativeTimeFormatter.php:78
#: ./vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/I18n/RelativeTimeFormatter.php:150
msgid “{0} second”
msgid_plural “{0} seconds”
msgstr[0] “{0} segundo”
msgstr[1] “{0} segundos”

Am I missing something? thanks in advance!

2

Translations are cached under tmp/cache/persistent, did you clear those too?

3

Yes I did. I’m not sure what’s happening

4

Some more dumb questions…

Do you also have resources/locale/es_AR/cake.po without the time translations in it?

Do you have the translations for all the things other than seconds in your file, just not shown here? :wink:

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  • I don’t have a resources/locale/es_AR/cake.po file, only a resources/locale/es/cake.po file.
  • My file it is not fully translated. But as I said in the first post, translations that don’t belong to RelativeTimeFormatter are working as expected.
  • Also found this but it is not working neither.

Thanks for all your help!

6

Well, remember that Cake code is still all just PHP, so you can debug it the same as you debug your own code. xdebug is your friend!