Tvheadend

Hi,

You can use the sytem locale time format if you change the function "renderDate" in the "epg.js" file by this:

function renderDate(value, meta, record) {
setMetaAttr(meta, record);

if (value) {
          var dt = new Date(value);
          var options = { weekday: 'short',  month: 'short', day: 'numeric', hour:'2-digit', minute: '2-digit'};
          return dt.toLocaleDateString(navigator.language, options);
          //return dt.format('D, M d, H:i'); // Previous format, you can delete it.
        }
        return "";
    }

About timestamp in the recordings, I think you can get a better answer from @perexg.

The grids use standard Date().toLocaleString() - see idnode.js . It means that browser's locale is used instead tvheadend's locale. All date values are in UTC, so the locale conversion is proceed in the javascript.

Pablo, is the options seems somewhat undocumented, only MSN contains info about this.. Is this a standard?

Anyway, I don't mind about this. If you tune this, just send me a PR to review.

The Date().toLocaleDataString() use the Intl.DateTimeFormat object included in the ECMA-402 Edition 1.0, and the options are defined there.

Ok, I will take a look.

Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

The grids use standard Date().toLocaleString() - see idnode.js . It means that browser's locale is used instead tvheadend's locale. All date values are in UTC, so the locale conversion is proceed in the javascript.

Pablo, is the options seems somewhat undocumented, only MSN contains info about this.. Is this a standard?

Anyway, I don't mind about this. If you tune this, just send me a PR to review.

Does this mean that the browsers language setting should be respected? Does it work for you?

I'm using Firefox (59.0.2 currently) and my preferred languages (in Preferences -> General -> Language -> Choose) are: [fi-fi]; Finnish [fi]; English/United Kingdom [en-gb]; English/United States [en-us]; English [en]; German/Germany [de-de]. No idea why Finnish is listed twice ...

I have no language pack installed, I'll see if that makes any difference.

Wild Penguin wrote:

I have no language pack installed, I'll see if that makes any difference.

Ok, a workaround (wlthough partial) is installing a (finnish/[insert your language here]) language pack made the timestamps in the webui in the finished (or failed) recording listing conform to finnish (i.e. "wd d.m.yyyy klo h.m.s"). I was a bit surprised about this, but if someone else is bothered about this: try to change the browser language (not just web page preferred rendered language setting)!

The EPG view is still a bit weird; currently it is still "Wd, Month DD, HH:MM"; according to finnish locale this is almost correct but dd<->month should be reversed, i.e. "Wd, dd month, hh:mm" would be technically correct. But for my brain using short monthnames is always a bit awkward in finnish, while being officially correct and accepted. This is the reason why they are rarely used; it is either long month names (if there is loads of space) or jusing numbers. I.e. "Wd d.m. hh:mm" would be shorted and more readable (and possibly even omitting wd, since to me it just seems superfluos; OTOH if the user doesn't remember the current date precisely, the weekday name might be usefull).

I'm working on a webui PR to use the user language selected in the user tab, so the dates will showed in the right format.

After take a look to the code, the timestamp used in the file recordings use the function 'strftime()' [[http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/strftime/]], so if you system locale are configured correctly, you can use '%x' or '%d-%m-%Y' in 'Format string/Pathname specification' to get a right filename.

After this, I will try to implement a custom date format as a new config option.