6607 2014-08-04 10:15:36 +0000 Auto-detect client locale and use for date formatting 2016-12-14 20:05:53 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime Toaster toaster unspecified All Multiple RESOLVED FIXED Low enhancement 2.3 M2 1 bluelightning brian.avery alejandro.delcastillo alexandru.damian belen.barros.pena bill.pittman cristiana.voicu --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 44946 0 bluelightning 2014-08-04 10:15:36 +0000 It seems like there is support in Django for auto-detecting the client's locale (using HTTP headers), you just need to enable it: http://www.janosgyerik.com/detect-language-preference-in-django-and-confirm-it-works/ We should enable this and ensure all places we display dates use the SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT etc. when formatting dates. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#date 45052 1 alexandru.damian 2014-08-08 14:48:51 +0000 Assigning to Belen as to get input on this. Currently dates, etc, are designed in locale-independent manner throughout the application, i.e. they don't match any locale definition, not even US or UK. 45718 2 belen.barros.pena 2014-09-19 14:38:21 +0000 *** Bug 6713 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 61719 3 belen.barros.pena 2016-04-27 12:37:55 +0000 Moving this 2.2 after receiving some complaints about it. It would be nice to fix. 61732 4 belen.barros.pena 2016-04-27 15:51:27 +0000 We will just update the Toaster manual to explain you should set your timezone using the Django admin interface. This is to avoid having one time stamp in the logs and file names, and another one in the UI 69138 5 brian.avery 2016-12-14 20:05:53 +0000 UI uses timezone of build machine. USE_TZ in settings.py file. If daylight savings time causes issues, add the pytz module.