Yii2 formatter locale not working

Question

I'm having a problem with the yii2 date formatter, it doesn't use the locale that I have set. The global language is set to de-DE, it seems to take effect everywhere except for the date formatter. I've tryed to set the formatter locale in the config file like this:

 'formatter' => [
        'dateFormat' => 'dd.MM.yyyy',            
        'decimalSeparator' => ',',
        'thousandSeparator' => ' ',
        'currencyCode' => 'EUR',
        'locale'=>'de_DE'
   ],

and also directly before using the formatter in code:

Yii::$app->formatter->locale = 'de-DE';
echo Yii::$app->formatter->asDatetime('2014-01-01');

but it formats the date to Jan 1, 2014 10:04:36 AM. Any ideas?

The question is somehow wrong. It is no locale issue occuring with the code, it is caused by a wrong property usage. — Jako

SiZE SiZE · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-25T09:50:12

The param dateFormat only has effect for asDate(). For asDatetime() set datetimeFormat.

Yii2 formatter locale not working

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