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KNHaw / ThunderbirdObsidianClipper

A Thunderbird extension to clip messages to the Obsidian notetaking application.
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Date format does not adapt to system #3

Closed felixmagin closed 10 months ago

felixmagin commented 10 months ago

I absolutely love the idea of the clipper and what it can do already.

Unfortunately, I seem to have issues with the date format of my clippings: The date is always formatted in the shortened German format (d.M.yyyy): Today's date (12 January 2024) becomes "12.1.2024". I already changed my OS's formatting to yyyy-MM-dd ("2024-01-12"). Thunderbird displays the date in this way now, but the clipped emails still appear in the impractical German format.

What makes it extra weird is that before I changed the OS date format, Thunderbird as well as my system date indicator down in the task bar would display the date as dd.MM.yyyy (12.01.2024, with a leading 0 for the month and, where necessary, also the day). The clipper never did that. Therefore I'm not sure if it's a Thunderbird issue.

Dou you have any idea how I could change clipper's behaviour?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Felix

KNHaw commented 10 months ago

I actually came across this in development and considered having a user specified format but never got around to adding it (right now the format is hard coded). I could fold that into the next release and let the user edit a field in the options tab to specify how they want the date or time to look. Would that work for your purposes?

In theory, I might be able to read the system format you've chosen in your operating system but I looked earlier I hit a dead end. I couldn't see that specified anywhere in the API for Add-Ons. I could add that as a long term feature but if the above is OK for you I'll just do that instead.

Please let me know your preference on this.

felixmagin commented 10 months ago

Thank you for answering so fast! If I could specifiy the format, that should work just fine for me. Actually, I would even prefer this solution over a "blind reference" to the operating system's formatting.

Once again, thank you very much for your work!

Bsaubolle commented 10 months ago

+1 to the self-assigned format, I would like to use the simple YYYY-MM-DD format, it would be rad to change! Looking forward to next release.

KNHaw commented 10 months ago

FYI, I added this to v0.3.0, which is now in the review queue. It should be processed and go live in the next few days.

felixmagin commented 10 months ago

It just went live today and it seems to work perfectly! You made a great tool (Obsidian) amazing. Thank you so much!

KNHaw commented 10 months ago

I'm so glad you like it! I'll close out this issue, but if you have any future issues, please make a new one here.

Thanks again!