Is it possible to change the language of the dates format for "ddd"?

[thatsme]

Hello!

New to Obsidian and still overwhelmed. I tried to setup a template for daily notes with the {{date: ddd, DD.MM.YYYY}} tag. Works fine, but for ddd, the English day is used. I have the software set to English, so I get where it is coming from. However, I’d like to have the “ddd” in German, not English. Is there a tag/format to do that?

Thank you!

[CawlinTeffid]

I don’t think there is. You can check the format guide that is linked in the description of that setting, but you’ve probably already done that.

[thatsme]

Yeah, I consulted the howto but I did not find a tag for language formatting except for programming languages.

[holroy]

If I’m not mistaken you either need to change the locale of Obsidian running environment, or possibly use Templater to call moment.js which I believe supports setting the locale when calling the format functions.

[thatsme]

Thanks for the pointers. I installed Templater and tried to puzzle something together. However, I have to admit that this is way too sophisticated for me. At the moment.js website, I found an example that using

moment.locale(‘es’);

could set the locale. However, I could not figure out how to put that into the template using Templater.
I’d greatly appreciate any hints or ideas.

[holroy]

Here is an example Templater template that lists the a very localised days for various countries:

<%* 
for (const co of ["en", "es", "fr", "de_DE", "nn", "nb", "pt", "uz_AF"]) {
  moment.locale(co)
  tR += "- " + moment.locale() + ": " + moment().format("dddd D MMMM YYYY HH:mm") + "\n"
}
%>

As it stands this returned this list for me:

So your case to that format should be something like:

<%* moment.locale("de_DE"); tR += moment().format("ddd[, ]DD.MM.YYYY") %>

[thatsme]

Thank you so much! That solves it.