WPML - Multilingual Date Function

sbmedia-functions.php

<?php
/*
 * Friendly Date (WPML)
 * Adds a date in the proper language based on a timestamp
 * @param timestamp   $timestamp   A unix timestamp
 * @param language    $language    The locale code. In most cases this will be ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE
 * @param short       $short       The date format to output (eg: 'l F jS, Y')
 */

function friendly_date_wpml($timestamp, $language, $short) {
  $format = ($short) ? 'F jS' : 'l F jS, Y';
  $date = date($format, $timestamp );

  // if french, show french date
  if( $language == 'fr' ) {
    setlocale(LC_TIME, "fr_FR");
    $format = ($short) ? "%e %B" : "%A le %e %B, %Y";
    $date = strftime($format, $timestamp);
    $date = htmlentities($date, ENT_COMPAT, 'ISO-8859-1');
  }

  return $date;
}

?>