title: Rails I18n locale set date format in Rails
body: <p>My environment: rails => 3.0.6, ruby => 1.9.2
  I set my locale to Italan. Infact, inside the console</p>
  
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    <p>I18n.locale # =>  :it</p>
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  <p>My locale file work just fine, but I'cant make my dates display right. For ex. in my console</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Date.current => Sun, 05 Jun 2011 </p>
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  <p>instead of</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>05 Giugno 2011</p>
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  <p>But if I try other methods it return the right translated output</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>helper.number_to_currency(30) # => "30.00 €"</p>
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  <p>Locale issue occurs only with dates. Why?</p>