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+<h2>Slstatus date with alternative locale</h2>
+<h3>2025-04-26</h3>
+<h4>Modifying slstatus to display French date</h4>
+<p>My default locale is en-US, but I wanted to display weekdays in French in the slstatus bar.</p>
+<p>The solution is to add setlocale to the function in <br><b>slstatus/components/datetime.c</b></p>
+<p><img src="/images/blog/slstatus-french.png"></p>
+<pre>
+/* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */
+#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
+#include &lt;time.h&gt;
+<b>#include &lt;locale.h&gt;</b>
+
+#include "../slstatus.h"
+#include "../util.h"
+
+
+const char *
+datetime(const char *fmt)
+{    
+	<b>setlocale(LC_ALL,"fr_FR.utf8");</b>
+	time_t t;
+
+	t = time(NULL);
+
+	if (!strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, localtime(&t))) {
+		warn("strftime: Result string exceeds buffer size");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	return buf;
+}
+</pre>
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