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Date localization guidelines for multilanguage sites

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Hi all,
I am working with Concrete5 5.4.2.2 and I would like to understand what are the guidelines to correctly write code for multilingual sites.
I am interested in understanding what approach to use to have dates in english and in italian, like these:
- 25-10-2011 , 25-Ott-2011 or 25 Ottobre 2011

Actually, I added all month (3 letters), month (full name), day (3 letters) and day (full name) words into messages.po for concrete 5.4.2.2 core, and use this approach:

for month:
echo t(date('F', strtotime($date)))
echo t(date('M', strtotime($date)))


for day:
echo t(date('D', strtotime($date)))
echo t(date('l', strtotime($date)))


Can it be a good way or do you suggest other approaches ?
Thanks
Matteo
matteo