[Anthill-pro] Server Date format

[Chad Loder]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:50:54PM -0400, Steve Boone wrote:
> Mikal,
> 
> This has been filed as a feature request.  We currently have a user time
> zone setting, but have not implemented a date format.

A suggestion. A good cheap way to do this is to have the server send
the date/time to the browser in UTC format and then use JavaScript to
render this in a way that is sensitive to the browser user's locale
and timezone, along the following lines:

1) Server emits the date(s) into the page using JavaScript, e.g.:

	<script>document.myDates['date1'] = 987434387;</script>

2) A script is also emitted which does something like:

	function getLocalDate(dateName) {
		var dt = parseInt(document.myDates[dateName], 10);
		return new Date(dt).toLocaleString();
	}

It really simplifies things because you don't need to track each user's
locale settings and timezone separately.

> On 9/5/07, Mikal Todd <mtodd at bravurasolutions.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any way of changing the date format on the web frontend from
> > mm/dd/yyyy to the European format of dd/mm/yyyy ? All our builds are in
> > the US format and its quite confusing.
> >
> > I'm guessing this can be setup using a server property?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mikal Todd
> > Build and Release Manager
> > Bravura Solutions Limited
> > www.bravurasolutions.com.au
> >
> >
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