Comment 8 for bug 1451328

If anyone who is really committed to running Mahara on a non-standard platform would like to fix this, I think the only really robust solution would be to switch from strftime() to date() or DateFormat, both of which use a different formatting standard that apparently is *not* OS-dependent. The main downside to that, is that it would make all of the datetime formats in our language files obsolete, because the format is completely different. So all the translated langpacks would need to be updated or they would stop working. (Potentially that update could be automated.)

There's also the simpler possibility of removing all the incompatible format strings from our core lang files. But I wouldn't want to upstream that because it would leave us printing leading zeroes in front of all of our hours and days of the month, e.g. "July 04, 07:30pm". (We could write more code to strip out those leading zeroes, but that would be hacky and brittle.)