[mythtv-users] Changing the Airdate format

[Peter Bennett]

On 2/1/25 07:55, David Hampton via mythtv-users wrote:
> On Sat, 2025-02-01 at 06:28 -0500, James Abernathy wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi all, any easy way to change the dates in the myth browser
>>> interface http://mythtv:6544/ from DD/MM/YYYY to MM/DD/YYYY     ?
>>> thx
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Mine is in that format for Airdate on the Recordings tab.
>> This link is to a screenshot on My Drive:
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r01IpRmFekVxw2p6Do9RQram2LQF81PF/view?usp=drive_link
>>
>> The back-end is an x86_64 PC running Debian 12. Mythtv is V35-master
>> built this AM. I don't know that it was any different on V34, but I
>> have not run that version in 6 months.
>> On the MythTV setup page my Locale is USA country and English (US)
>> and I think that makes it default to mm/dd/yyyy
> Is this customizable?  My preferred date format is YYYY-MM-DD.
>
> David
>
> _______________________________________________

It takes the date and time format from the browser, which gets it from 
the operating system.

For example to get British dates in chrome run this at a command line:

LANGUAGE=en_GB google-chrome &

Firefox instructions from Roland:

In order to get Firefox to display the date/time information and other 
locale settings like
`LC_TIME` and `LC_NUMERIC`
correctly in my language, I needed to set-up Firefox correctly:
Open a new tab in Firefox, type about:config in the address bar and hit 
enter,
proceed to agree to the warning message and use the search bar to find
intl.regional_prefs.use_os_locales.
Toggle the flag value to true and restart the browser.
Now, every date/time display works as desired in the web-app..

Peter