--- loncom/localize/lonlocal.pm	2008/07/02 21:10:41	1.46
+++ loncom/localize/lonlocal.pm	2008/09/19 03:27:04	1.49
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # The LearningOnline Network with CAPA
 # Localization routines
 #
-# $Id: lonlocal.pm,v 1.46 2008/07/02 21:10:41 raeburn Exp $
+# $Id: lonlocal.pm,v 1.49 2008/09/19 03:27:04 raeburn Exp $
 #
 # Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees
 #
@@ -166,11 +166,12 @@ use locale;
 use POSIX qw(locale_h strftime);
 use DateTime();
 use DateTime::TimeZone;
+use DateTime::Locale;
 
 require Exporter;
 
 our @ISA = qw (Exporter);
-our @EXPORT = qw(mt mtn ns);
+our @EXPORT = qw(mt mtn ns mt_user);
 
 # ========================================================= The language handle
 
@@ -201,6 +202,27 @@ sub mt (@) {
     }
 }
 
+sub mt_user {
+    my ($user_lh,@what) = @_;
+    if ($user_lh) {
+        if ($what[0] eq '') {
+            if (wantarray) {
+                return @what;
+            } else {
+                return $what[0];
+            }
+        } else {
+            return $user_lh->maketext(@what);
+        }
+    } else {
+        if (wantarray) {
+            return @what;
+        } else {
+            return $what[0];
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 # ============================================================== What language?
 
 sub current_language {
@@ -293,6 +315,14 @@ sub locallocaltime {
     if (!defined($thistime) || $thistime eq '') {
 	return &mt('Never');
     }
+    if (($thistime < 0) || ($thistime eq 'NaN')) {
+        &Apache::lonnet::logthis("Unexpected time (negative or NaN) '$thistime' passed to lonlocal::locallocaltime");  
+        return &mt('Never');
+    }
+    if ($thistime !~ /^\d+$/) {
+        &Apache::lonnet::logthis("Unexpected non-numeric time '$thistime' passed to lonlocal::locallocaltime");
+        return &mt('Never');
+    }
 
     my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch(epoch => $thistime)
                      ->set_time_zone(&gettimezone());
@@ -337,6 +367,38 @@ sub locallocaltime {
     }
 }
 
+sub getdatelocale {
+    my ($datelocale,$locale_obj);
+    if ($Apache::lonnet::env{'course.'.$Apache::lonnet::env{'request.course.id'}.'.datelocale'}) {
+        $datelocale = $Apache::lonnet::env{'course.'.$Apache::lonnet::env{'request.course.id'}.'.datelocale'};
+    } elsif ($Apache::lonnet::env{'request.course.id'} ne '') {
+        my $cdom = $Apache::lonnet::env{'course.'.$Apache::lonnet::env{'request.course.id'}.'.domain'};
+        if ($cdom ne '') {
+            my %domdefaults = &Apache::lonnet::get_domain_defaults($cdom);
+            if ($domdefaults{'datelocale_def'} ne '') {
+                $datelocale = $domdefaults{'datelocale_def'};
+            }
+        }
+    } elsif ($Apache::lonnet::env{'user.domain'} ne '') {
+        my %udomdefaults = &Apache::lonnet::get_domain_defaults($Apache::lonnet::env{'user.domain'});
+        if ($udomdefaults{'datelocale_def'} ne '') {
+            $datelocale = $udomdefaults{'datelocale_def'};
+        }
+    }
+    if ($datelocale ne '') {
+        eval {
+            $locale_obj = DateTime::Locale->load($datelocale);
+        };
+        if (!$@) {
+            if ($locale_obj->id() eq $datelocale) {
+                return $locale_obj;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return $locale_obj;
+}
+
+
 # ==================== Normalize string (reduce fragility in the lexicon files)
 
 # This normalizes a string to reduce fragility in the lexicon files of