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Set user's 24h preference from their current OS locale#29651

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Fixes: #28371

Edit: Comment below is not accurate anymore, see #29651 (comment) for solution.

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relative-time uses the closest lang attribute to format dates, but the problem our closest tag is on <html> which does contain the the selected locale for the UI, which may not necessarly match the user's currently locale.

For example any user with 24h clock preference that has set en-US as their language in gitea will receive US-based 12h formatting. To achieve locale-specific time formatting, set lang=unknown (the default value of lang) on <relative-time> which results in locale-aware formatting and likely a small speedup because the element does not have to search up the whole HTML tree.

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Well it isn't pretty, but technically it's the correct solution 😆

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silverwind commented Mar 7, 2024

Basically I take it as our fault for setting lang on <html> in first place. Maybe we should evaluate removing that attribute in the future so that user's default locale settings are in effect everywhere.

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lafriks commented Mar 7, 2024

Wouldn't that affect date display language to differ from UI?

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silverwind commented Mar 7, 2024

Actually yes, there is the problem with mixed language now, so likely the fix will be more complex.

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silverwind commented Mar 7, 2024 •
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Fixed by using a JS solution that formats according to lang, but alters the 24h format setting as per user's locale. This will work for all tooltips:

Screenshot 2024-03-07 at 23 03 35 Screenshot 2024-03-07 at 23 03 17 Screenshot 2024-03-07 at 23 14 34

I think there is only one other place in the UI where we render such absolute dates, which is in the actions view and which I've also fixed:

Screenshot 2024-03-07 at 23 04 00

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Ready now. I think I will also upstream this fix into https://github.com/github/relative-time-element, because honestly I'm also tired of seeing the 12h format on GitHub. 😆

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silverwind commented Mar 7, 2024

I'll try do one more enhancement to detect availability of getHourCycles, which is the best API for this and it will also enable use of the rare 11h clock format.

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silverwind commented Mar 7, 2024

I'll try do one more enhancement to detect availability of getHourCycles, which is the best API for this and it will also enable use of the rare 11h clock format.

Actually, no, I won't do it. The relevant Intl API usage is too hackish, maybe revisit this in a few years once they have introduced proper usable APIs.

    const props = {};
    const intlLocale = new Intl.Locale(Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().locale);
    const hourCycle = intlLocale.getHourCycles?.()[0] ?? intlLocale.hourCycles?.[0];
    if (hourCycle) {
      props.hourCycle = hourCycle;
    } else {
      props.hour12 = !Number.isInteger(Number(new Intl.DateTimeFormat([], {hour: 'numeric'}).format()));
    }

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Set user's 24h preference from their current OS locale (#29651)
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Fixes: #28371

Fixed by using a JS solution that formats according to `lang`, but alters the 24h format setting as per user's locale. This will work for all tooltips:

<img width="243" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-07 at 23 03 35" src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/115237/6d16c71c-6786-4eda-8cdc-50ec68ba62c6">
<img width="250" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-07 at 23 03 17" src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/115237/4e26bbb7-12df-4b81-bd37-14705e87e8f7">
<img width="310" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-07 at 23 14 34" src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/115237/1ef599f0-6401-4e19-b1da-59cdfc09b0f6">

I think there is only one other place in the UI where we render such absolute dates, which is in the actions view and which I've also fixed:

<img width="275" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-07 at 23 04 00" src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/115237/df0fbe1f-96ee-4338-ab5e-2b10e215005d">
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lunny commented Mar 8, 2024

Sorry for the mistake of the commit message and I have to amend the commit message with magic power.

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* giteaofficial/main:
  Add cache for branch divergence on branch list page (go-gitea#29577)
  Fix user-defined markup links targets (go-gitea#29305)
  Don't show AbortErrors on logout (go-gitea#29639)
  Style fomantic grey labels (go-gitea#29458)
  Don't use `<br />` in alert block (go-gitea#29650)
  Fix incorrect rendering csv file when file size is larger than UI.CSV.MaxFileSize (go-gitea#29653)
  Set user's 24h preference from their current OS locale (go-gitea#29651)
  Move get/set default branch from git package to gitrepo package to hide repopath (go-gitea#29126)
  Make runs-on support variable expression (go-gitea#29468)
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silverwind commented Mar 9, 2024

Upstream issue: github/relative-time-element#276

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silverwind commented Feb 15, 2026 •
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Note for future: This workaround can be removed once github/relative-time-element#329 is merged and released. If there is no progress on that, I will fork the repo.

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