How to fix different php-smarty date output on different hosts?

Question

PHP

Used by Smarty 3 + php.
On jino.ru (php 5.6) hosting, if you display the date in this format: {$smarty.now|date_format:"%B %Y"|lower}- the result will be January 2022 .

On beget.com hosting, ISP Manager was installed on the VPS, the same version of PHP 5.6 was installed, timezone Europe/Moscow was set up, january 2022 is displayed .
Solved this problem by way setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ru_RU.utf8');in PHP.

But now it is not January 2022 that is displayed as on jino, but January 2022 (that is, as if we display the date with a number, but we only display the month and year .....) Tell me how to treat ? The script is self-written, the output of dates is very, very, very much where it is located, changing everywhere is not an option, you need to somehow universally solve the problem.

Answer 1

It turned out that on these server settings %Byou need to write instead %OBto get the desired result.