date information in another language In order to display the date information in French, I have modified the node.tpl.php file as follows.

 print t('publi&amp;eacute; le !datetime',
      array('!datetime' =&gt; format_date($variables['node']-&gt;created, $type='medium', $format = 'D j F Y', $timezone = NULL, $langcode = 'fr'))
 );  


The week day, and the month are still displayed in English!
Add this to your template.php file.

function THEMENAME_preprocess_node(&amp;$variables) {
  $variables['submitted'] = t('Submitted by !username on !datetime', array('!username' =&gt; $variables['name'], '!datetime' =&gt; $variables['date']));
}


You might need to add this to your node.page.tpl file.

$variables['submitted'] = t('Submitted on !datetime', array('!datetime' =&gt; $variables['date']));


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