Date formats

[Guy_]

Are any date formatting features available in the SDK JavaScript?

EG.

date.toLocaleString('fr-FR', options)

or are there routines to emulate this ?

[JonFitbit · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately that's not available on device due to the version of ECMAScript supported by the Javascript engine.

You can see an example of localising dates here, albeit manually. https://github.com/Fitbit/sdk-i18n/tree/master/app

[Guy_]

@JonFitbit- thanks, that is useful, however just noticed the setting below returns a language of "en-us".

Is this correct because it will return the wrong date format?

How do you get "en-gb"?

This may be why some English people complain about date format localization because there appears to be no English (UK) setting?

[Guy_]

@JonFitbit  - only some language examples are shown in the i18n - is there a complete set of files for all languages?

[Ouduk0]

All English language options force the watch the show the date in MM/DD format. Only other languages change it to DD/MM. Will there be a way have the watch in English with DD/MM?

[pablopitty]

On the watch face I created, I added a Select within the companion App to allow the user to switch between MM/DD and DD/MM. I capture the selection and the watch to react to the changes.

[Fabrikisto]

On my watch faces I build the date display manually as a string concatenated from the individual time/date segments. I know this forces my choice on the user, but I consider it in keeping with the "Convention over Customization" paradigm I learned via Ruby on Rails. Besides, "YYYY-MM-DD" is the only "correct" universal format! 🙂