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to_string(date, options \\ [])

Formats a date according to a format string as defined in CLDR and described in TR35.

to_string!(date, options \\ [])

Formats a date according to a format string as defined in CLDR and described in TR35 or raises an exception.

Functions

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to_string(date, options \\ [])

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@spec to_string(Cldr.Calendar.any_date_time(), Keyword.t()) ::
  {:ok, String.t()} | {:error, {module(), String.t()}}

Formats a date according to a format string as defined in CLDR and described in TR35.

Arguments

  • date is a Date.t/0 struct or any map that contains one or more of the keys :year, :month, :day and optionally :calendar.

  • options is a keyword list of options for formatting.

Options

  • :format is one of :short, :medium, :long, :full, or a format id or a format string. The default is :medium for full dates (that is, dates having :year, :month, :day and :calendar fields). The default for partial dates is to derive a candidate format id from the date and find the best match from the formats returned by Cldr.Date.available_formats/3. See here for more information about specifying formats.

  • :locale any locale returned by Cldr.known_locale_names/1. The default is Cldr.get_locale/0.

  • :number_system a number system into which the formatted date digits should be transliterated.

  • :prefer is either :unicode (the default) or :ascii. A small number of formats have two variants - one using Unicode spaces (typically non-breaking space) and another using only ASCII whitespace. The :ascii format is primarily to support legacy use cases and is not recommended. See Cldr.Date.available_formats/3 to see which formats have these variants. Currently no date-specific formats have such variants but they may in the future.

  • :era which, if set to :variant, will use a variant for the era if one is available in the requested locale. In the :en locale, for example, era: :variant will return CE instead of AD and BCE instead of BC.

Returns

  • {:ok, formatted_string} or

  • {:error, reason}

Examples 

# Full dates have the default format `:medium`
iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string(~D[2017-07-10], locale: :en)
{:ok, "Jul 10, 2017"}

iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string(~D[2017-07-10], format: :medium, locale: :en)
{:ok, "Jul 10, 2017"}

iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string(~D[2017-07-10], format: :full, locale: :en)
{:ok, "Monday, July 10, 2017"}

iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string(~D[2017-07-10], format: :short, locale: :en)
{:ok, "7/10/17"}

iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string(~D[2017-07-10], format: :short, locale: "fr")
{:ok, "10/07/2017"}

# A partial date with a derived "best match" format
iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string(%{year: 2024, month: 6}, locale: "fr")
{:ok, "06/2024"}

# A partial date with a best match CLDR-defined format
iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string(%{year: 2024, month: 6}, format: :yMMM, locale: "fr")
{:ok, "juin 2024"}

# Sometimes the available date fields can't be mapped to an available
# CLDR defined format.
iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string(%{year: 2024, day: 3}, locale: "fr")
{:error,
 {Cldr.DateTime.UnresolvedFormat, "No available format resolved for :dy"}}
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to_string!(date, options \\ [])

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@spec to_string!(Cldr.Calendar.any_date_time(), Keyword.t()) ::
  String.t() | no_return()

Formats a date according to a format string as defined in CLDR and described in TR35 or raises an exception.

Arguments

  • date is a Date.t/0 struct or any map that contains one or more of the keys :year, :month, :day and optionally :calendar.

  • options is a keyword list of options for formatting.

Options

  • :format is one of :short, :medium, :long, :full, or a format id or a format string. The default is :medium for full dates (that is, dates having :year, :month, :day and :calendar fields). The default for partial dates is to derive a candidate format id from the date and find the best match from the formats returned by Cldr.Date.available_formats/3. See here for more information about specifying formats.

  • :locale any locale returned by Cldr.known_locale_names/1. The default is Cldr.get_locale/0.

  • :number_system a number system into which the formatted date digits should be transliterated.

  • :prefer is either :unicode (the default) or :ascii. A small number of formats have two variants - one using Unicode spaces (typically non-breaking space) and another using only ASCII whitespace. The :ascii format is primarily to support legacy use cases and is not recommended. See Cldr.Date.available_formats/3 to see which formats have these variants. Currently no date-specific formats have such variants but they may in the future.

  • :era which, if set to :variant, will use a variant for the era if one is available in the requested locale. In the :en locale, for example, era: :variant will return CE instead of AD and BCE instead of BC.

Returns

  • formatted_date or

  • raises an exception.

Examples 

iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string!(~D[2017-07-10], locale: :en)
"Jul 10, 2017"

iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string!(~D[2017-07-10], format: :medium, locale: :en)
"Jul 10, 2017"

iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string!(~D[2017-07-10], format: :full, locale: :en)
"Monday, July 10, 2017"

iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string!(~D[2017-07-10], format: :short, locale: :en)
"7/10/17"

iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string!(~D[2017-07-10], format: :short, locale: "fr")
"10/07/2017"

# A partial date with a derived "best match" format
iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string!(%{year: 2024, month: 6}, locale: "fr")
"06/2024"

# A partial date with a best match CLDR-defined format
iex> Bonfire.Common.Localise.Cldr.Date.to_string!(%{year: 2024, month: 6}, format: :yMMM, locale: "fr")
"juin 2024"