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Date is shown in incorrect format

Open dylankenneally opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Describe the bug The date that is displayed below the article title does not appear to be locale-aware, for those of us in Australia, the UK, etc. this can be very confusing.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Be in Australia or the UK (or have you system think it is)
  2. Got to any feed article that was published on the 13th day of the month or later
  3. Note the date format is wrong

Expected behavior Should respect the systems default setup

Screenshots image For non-US users, the above reads as the 8th day of the 16th month.

image The above are the settings I expected to be used

Platform (please complete the following information):

  • OS: macOS Monterey (v12.5.1)
  • Version v1.1.2

Additional context n/a

dylankenneally avatar Aug 28 '22 18:08 dylankenneally

Same here. It seems the language setting (English) is the only thing that determines date time format. Maybe another language setting (such as English UK) could alliviate this, but it should respect the computer date local regardles..

zydezu avatar Nov 20 '22 15:11 zydezu

This is something I'm noting with increasing frequency in a lot of software (OnlyOffice does it too, for example) and more generally as an English speaker living in a non English-speaking country: people think that the Month/Day/Year format for dates is what the English language does, when it's actually just what one dialect of English (US) does.

I've also seen it cause really major confusion.

Ideally, Fluent should respect the user's locale settings. Another workaround could be using the same method GitHub uses for "English": Mon DD, YYYY format (today being Sep 24, 2023).

emes81 avatar Sep 24 '23 06:09 emes81