Date and time format

[skycommand]

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Problem description

The app doesn't respect regional settings and the user's preferences regarding the date and time formats. Instead, it uses the following settings:

• For the date format, it uses the month-first format, which only 18% of people in the world use, mainly in the U.S. and Japan.
• For the time format, the app uses the 12-hours format, instead of the more concise 24-hours format.

Steps to reproduce

Just open the app and look at any date field.

Environment

• OS: Windows 10 v21H2
• App version: 1.5.0

Notes

Since this is a Windows app, you can have Windows format the date and time for you. Depending on which API you are using, it could be as easy as this:

return DateTime.Now.ToString("D"); //In my computer, returns 18 Aug 2022, Thu

The ToString function accepts "F", "f", "D", "d", "G", and "g".

Here are two sets of documentation, in case you need them: .NET and Windows API

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[aleksey-hoffman]

Hi, thanks for the feedback It's already supposed to use your system default locale to format date and time. It seems your system also has en-US locale installed and Sigma uses that as the default.

If you'd like to help me debug this so I can fix it, please do the following:

In your browser, right on this page, press Ctrl + Shift + I then go to Console tab and then run the following line of code there: window.navigator.languages

Then please show me the result.

[skycommand]

It's already supposed to use your system default locale to format date and time. It seems your system also has en-US locale installed and Sigma uses that as the default.

No, it doesn't. Here is a screenshot.

And in PowerShell, I get this:

PS C:\> [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture

LCID             Name             DisplayName
----             ----             -----------
4096             en-001           English (World)

In your browser, right on this page, press Ctrl + Shift + I then go to Console tab and then run the following line of code there: window.navigator.languages

That's a strange request, but I oblige. Here:

I asked my colleagues about this request. Browsers do not adhere to OS regional settings for privacy and customization reasons. (The only exception is Internet Explorer.) I can go to Firefox or Microsoft Edge's options and change the outcome of this JavaScript command.

[aleksey-hoffman]

Thanks, mate. I found out that the function, that I'm using, formats en locale as en-US, rather than en-GB I'm gonna add the ability to choose any date / time format, in the next update

[aleksey-hoffman]

Fixed in 89eaa9a Will be released in v1.6 update