I have an Instant, and I want to format that to a localized month+year string. So in English, "Janua...

# kotlinx-datetime

[rob42]

I have an Instant, and I want to format that to a localized month+year string. So in English, "January 2025", or in Korean "2025년 1월" etc...
I know the user's locale, so no magic involved.

Feels like this should be very achievable, but can't find any documentation/resources on how to do so in Kotlin multiplatform?

[rob42]

As an aside, this is so hard to search for because "localized date formatting" yields pages and pages of timezone conversion stuff

[Dmitry Khalanskiy [JB]]

There's no such functionality at the moment, unfortunately: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-datetime/issues/352

[rob42]

Oh bummer. I guess kotlin isn't suitable for localized apps yet?

[Dmitry Khalanskiy [JB]]

Although there is no built-in functionality in kotlinx-datetime, there are solutions written on top of it; for example, please take a look at https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-datetime/discussions/253#discussioncomment-10584159 Whether this counts as "suitable" depends on your point of view.

[rob42]

Ah yeah, definitely possible to do this with Java, but not suitable for pure kotlin