PiAware Skyview Time

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The time in the PiAware Skyview is in 12 hour format. Can an option be added to change to 24 hour format?

Whit

2

If changes are being made, could I ask for an international date format?
yyyy/m/d for preference

3

Piaware shows time in UTC 24h format yyyy/mm/dd/hh/mm/ss, but Skyview shows local time as indicated. Might be nice to have both local and UTC and choice of US or international format? Most piaware feeders are in the US I believe.
Not a big deal here though.

4

My Pi is set to en_GB locale, but SkyView 3.7.1 shows date as ā€œ5/4/2019ā€ which means 5th of April.
But today is 4th of May. How can I change this?

Maybe universal option would be to display date as ā€œMay 4 2019ā€ as thereā€™s definitely a lot of free space for 1-2 extra characters, or allow it to be easily configured.

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5

Ah got it, it depends on browser language which was set to en_US.
Still, I would personally prefer to see non-ambiguous datetime there by default, either

2019-05-04 14:35
or
May 04 2019 14:35

second option will eliminate ambiguity, while still keeping US folk happy, because currently looking at date like 05/04/2019 no one can tell if it is April on May without additional context (like what browser language is set, what os locale is set, what the software respects - OS locale or browser locale, etc.). And even then donā€™t assume anything. Good example is my setup, I am US resident and you would expect MM/DD/YYYY on my computers but you will be wrong, as I have my OS locales set to en_GB because that means more internationally compatible date and time formats everywhere. Also Iā€™m from Russia and ā€œmiddle endianā€ date breaks my brain everytime.

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Edit file script.js
sudo nano /usr/share/dump1090-fa/html/script.js

Ctrl+w, then type (or copy-paste) following
toLocaleString

Press Enter key
The cursor will jump to

function refreshClock() {
        $('#clock_div').text(new Date().toLocaleString());
        var c = setTimeout(refreshClock, 500);
}

Add
"en-GB", {hour12:true}
inside brackets of
toLocaleString(),
so it becomes like this:

function refreshClock() {
        $('#clock_div').text(new Date().toLocaleString("en-GB", {hour12:true}));
        var c = setTimeout(refreshClock, 500);
}

Save (Ctrl+o), and Close (Ctrl+x)

Go to Skyview in browser, and reload browser (Ctrl+F5)

Check the date :slight_smile:

Before Modifications:
image

After Modifications:
image

7

PR submitted:

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8

:+1:
Writing Month in words rather than in numbers removes all ambiguity.

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9

Iā€™m really tired of that ambiguity everywhere. Every single day I see dates like 1/12/2018 on websites and have to do the guesswork like ā€œWell, is that January because itā€™s US website, or do they honor my locale set to GB English and thatā€™s December?ā€

or maybe ā€œbest beforeā€ date on Swiss chocolate. Do they use Swiss dd/mm/yyyy format because itā€™s made there and it has expired, or do they use American mm/dd/yyyy format because itā€™s sold in US and itā€™s still fresh? Better throw that away as itā€™s not clear.

10

I would never throw out Swiss chocolate without at least tasting it first regardless of the date.

At least todayDate the US agrees with the rest of the world

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11

Obligatory xkcd: xkcd: ISO 8601

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