jq, locale and strptime: how to use properly

Question

I have this input

{"text": "05 april 2017"}

If I run echo '{"text": "05 april 2017"}' | jq '.text|strptime("%d %B %Y")' I have the right result.

If I set temporary my locale in italian with export LC_ALL=it_IT.utf8 and apply .text|strptime("%d %B %Y") to

{"text": "05 aprile 2017"}

I have date "05 aprile 2017" does not match format "%d %B %Y".

Ho to manage date localization settings with jq to recognize months local name?

Thank you

Looking at https://github.com/stedolan/jq/blob/master/src/builtin.c#L1301 I'd say it should "just work". — Stefan Dragnev, Nov 08 '18 at 09:45

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 08 '18 at 22:39

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It looks like there is a bug open for this issue. https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1740

Currently (in v1.6), localization is not supported for date functionality.

answered Nov 08 '18 at 22:39

bbbco

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