Localized dates for hyde

site_defaults.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from hyde.plugin import Plugin
from jinja2 import contextfunction, Markup

@contextfunction
def localtime(context, val, lc):
    import locale, datetime
    current = locale.getlocale()
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, lc)
    result = val.strftime(locale.nl_langinfo(locale.D_T_FMT))
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, current)
    return Markup(result.decode('utf-8'))

@contextfunction
def frenchtime(context, val):
    return localtime(context, val, ('fr_FR', 'utf-8'))

class SiteDefaults(Plugin):

    def template_loaded(self, template):
        self.template = template
        template.env.globals['localtime'] = localtime
        template.env.globals['frenchtime'] = frenchtime