Post date formats, sphinx/ablog config and locale

[kielbasi]

Describe the bug

Hi !

Many thanks for the work on ablog. I am developing a website with sphinx and pydata theme and I use ablog to manage events data as posts with comments disabled.

I had an unexpected behaviour but I don't know if it concerns directly ablog or sphinx itself. Indeed, setting language, blog_languages and blog_default_language options to 'en' properly as shown in sphinx and ablog documentation, dates visible in the result of a postlist directive are still in French. Why in French ? Because of the locale of my computer. Then, in addition to these 3 options, I had to set the locale to en_GB in the conf.py file directly to fix the problem. I don't think this unexpected behaviour is linked to another sphinx extension used, but I attach the relevant part of my conf.py to explain them.

By using %b, %B, %a and/or %A in the :date: parameter of a postlist directive, the printed words are in French if we comment the line setting the locale.

It is a bug of blog_languages and blog_default_language options ? or language option itself ?

Thanks in advance.

To Reproduce

Configuration file for the Sphinx documentation builder.

For the full list of built-in configuration values, see the documentation:

https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html

import os
import sys
import locale
import datetime

we have to set the locale to en_GB for date prints

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_GB")

-- Project information -----------------------------------------------------

https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#project-information

...

-- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------

https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#general-configuration

extensions = ["breathe",
"sphinx_copybutton",
"sphinx_design",
"sphinx_subfigure",
"sphinxcontrib.email",
"sphinxcontrib.moderncmakedomain",
"ablog",
"sphinx.ext.intersphinx"]

language = "en"
templates_path = ["_templates"]
exclude_patterns = []

breathe configuration

...

sphinx_copybutton configuration

...

sphinxcontrib-email configuration

email_automode = True

ablog configuration

blog_path = "events"
blog_title = "Events"
blog_languages = {
"en": ("English", None),
}
blog_default_language = "en"
fontawesome_included = True

-- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------

https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#options-for-html-output

html_theme = "pydata_sphinx_theme"
html_static_path = ["_static"]

...

Screenshots

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System Details

masOS Ventura, intel
every sphinx and ablog dependency installed with pip and up to date

Installation method

pip

[nabobalis]

Thanks for the report, I will try to look into it.

I am planning on removing the shear number of language options from ablog and let sphinx deal with it in the future.