Time format

Eik

There’s already a date format in the settings. It would be nice to have time format as well, like ‘am/pm’ vs ‘24h’. Example show time as 1pm or 13:00 for showing the time in the outline and on the calendar.

Lala

Date formatting definitely requires an improvement. Right now the options are really limited. I don’t know what library you guys use, but I love the way Dynalist does it by allowing us to use the full formatting options of moment.js

Jay

Lala Are you referring to the display formats like https://help.dynalist.io/article/86-customize-date-format?

Unless I’m not seeing that feature in Dynalist, I think it’s more complicated for Legend because Legend also has to parse in any format that it displays in. Our date handling has gotten complex over the years and could certainly use a refactor. We use a mixture of https://day.js.org/ and https://github.com/wanasit/chrono, and a heavily customized https://github.com/jakubroztocil/rrule for repeat dates.

What other date formatting options would you like?

Lala

Jay Yes, that is what I meant. The help post initially just pointed to the moment.js documentation, but the behavior is still the same.
Within those two inputs you can input a moment.js format string that is used to format the dates depending on whether a time was selected in the date selector or not.

How I understood it there are three different “manifestations” of a date:

a displayed date within the document
an input from the user in the date selector
the format that is used for all use cases within your application (show in calendar, is it overdue or not, etc.)

If you haven’t already detached all three modes, I would try to tackle that. It is I believe a larger operation, but it would give you a lot more flexibility.

ristomatti

Hi! I’m trying out Legend as it seemed something like I’ve been looking for quite some time. But as a European, lack of 24h time format is enough to make me give up and continue looking. How can this be low priority? Setting a locale should be a standard feature of ANY app or site that includes date/time, not to mention calendar and TODO features.

This is severely limiting your potential customer base. To quote Wikipedia (highlights my own):

In several countries the 12-hour clock is the dominant written and spoken system of time, predominantly in nations that were part of the former British Empire, for example, the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada (excluding Quebec), Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Malta, and others follow this convention as well, such as Egypt, Mexico, Nepal and the former American colony of the Philippines. In most countries, however, the 24-hour clock is the standard system used, especially in writing. Some nations in Europe and Latin America use a combination of the two, preferring the 12-hour system in colloquial speech but using the 24-hour system in written form and in formal contexts.

I could better understand this if the app was just released but already this thread is 6 months old…