tifenak  
                
                  
                    September 20, 2025,  1:41pm
                   
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              Is there a way to parse months in a data file and translate them automatically? Or the only way is to use i18n?
[
    {
        "Year": "2025",
        "Month": "April",
        "Amount": "6,164"
    },
    {
        "Year": "2025",
        "Month": "March",
        "Amount": "4,164"
    },
    {
        "Year": "2025",
        "Month": "February",
        "Amount": "3,164"
    },
    {
        "Year": "2025",
        "Month": "January",
        "Amount": "2,164"
    }
]
 
            
              
            
           
          
            
            
              Create a parsable date string  using the first three letters of the month name, then use the time.Format function to localize:
{{ range site.Data.foo }}
  {{ $t := time.AsTime (fmt.Printf "01 %s %s" (strings.Substr .Month 0 3 | strings.ToLower) .Year) }}
  {{ $t | time.Format "January 2006" }}
{{ end }}
Our documentation lists the most common parsable date strings. Here is the complete list:https://github.com/spf13/cast/blob/fc73346bfc4e6597bc520fb6eea04360299e77d2/internal/time.go#L31-L57 
             
            
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                tifenak  
              
                  
                    September 20, 2025,  3:08pm
                   
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Is {{ $t | time.Format "January" }} valid? I just need the month. It works in my test though.
             
            
              
            
           
          
            
            
              
 tifenak:
 
valid?
 
 
Yes. Use one or more of these components in your layout string:https://gohugo.io/functions/time/format/#layout-string 
             
            
              
            
           
          
            
              
                tifenak  
              
                  
                    September 20, 2025,  3:14pm
                   
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              Thank you. Your solution saved me from duplicating multiple data files. I will try to consolidate those I had created in the data folder into a single file in page bundles.
             
            
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                system  
              
                  
                    September 22, 2025,  3:15pm
                   
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