Flood: [Request] Custom date format?

[runaroundhome]

Is it possible to be able to set the date format, as currently it's mm/dd/yyyy I'd like something like dd/mm/yyyy?

[jfurrow]

Agreed, this is a good idea.

[dcousens]

Alternatively, yyyy/mm/dd if adding the configuration option is too much work

[dcousens]

@jfurrow would you be OK with "2 days ago" instead of the date?

[dcousens]

@jfurrow I'm happy to do this if you are OK with it

[Ichabond]

I'll be the necromancer on this issue.

I've looked into how the date rendering is done. At the moment, the date in the torrent list overview is done here: https://github.com/jfurrow/flood/blob/b88c7ff11984c9a9fd71dae97e799f8624459f44/client/src/javascript/components/torrent-list/TorrentDetail.js#L28

This FormattedDate component is a part of react-intl, the documentation for this component can be found here: https://github.com/yahoo/react-intl/wiki/Components#formatteddate

There is no provision to change the string formatting of the date, which is entirely reliant on the locales setting here: https://github.com/jfurrow/flood/blob/aa095625ab8c2255e309b5466e026167a73d3b67/client/src/javascript/app.js#L80
So if you set your language in the settings to en, it assumes en-US. And en-us do the mm/dd/yyyy thing.
I'm not really sure what the best way to proceed would be, besides not using FormattedDate, and using a different component that does allow passing a string formatter. Options here would be Moment.js or Globalize.

I hope this can help you make some progress.

[bbashy]

This bothers me too. It should really just be ISO standard yyyy-mm-dd if it can't be configured with the locale.