How to get plotly to use the set locale

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Hi empet,

thank you so much for your response. Unfortunately I still don’t understand it. That’s pretty much what I do…

In the beginning of my code, I do the following to make sure I got the right locale:

print(datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%A'))

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')

print(datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%A'))

This gives me the weekday first in english and then in my language, so I know I got that part right. Then I import my data from excel to get my dataframe (time series). Then I use the following to format the x-axis depending on the zoom level:

tickformatstops=[
           ...
            dict(dtickrange=[3600000, 86400000], value="%a %d. %b %H:%M"),
            dict(dtickrange=["M1", "M12"], value="%b '%y"),
            dict(dtickrange=["M12", None], value="%Y")

Which should use the setting in locale to display stuff like the day of the week or the month, but it’s always English. For example, according to the documentation, %a should give me the “Weekday as locale’s abbreviated name”.

Does this make sense to you? Maybe you can find my mistake in this?