More international Date/Time formats input in webtop

[Knut]

• In Europe we’re using 24 hour time format. We are really not used to work with AM / PM. Would it be possible to make the date/time fields more international or otherwise dependent from the language settings in the user profile? I miss that feaure since years over all FC versons (I’ve started with FC 4.x).

• It would also be a nice feature to have a setting option (f.e. in the “General Configuration”) for the “minutes” dropdown list. In most cases it makes no sense to offer values from 0 to 59, which will force the user to scroll the dropdown list. A possible configuration choice could be f.e in periods of time.

• Period of 30 minutes (0 / 30)
• Period of 15 minutes (0 / 15 / 30 / 45)
• Period of 10 minutes (0 / 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50)
• Period of 5 minutes (0 / 5 / 10 / 15 / …)
• Period of 1 minute (1 to 59)

[modius]

@Knut

In Europe we’re using 24 hour time format. We are really not used to work with AM / PM. Would it be possible to make the date/time fields more international or otherwise dependent from the language settings in the user profile? I miss that feaure since years over all FC versons (I’ve started with FC 4.x).

There is a PR for this:

24 hour time support for datetime formtool

But @justincarter wants to review options for having a locale setting that applies this, rather than forcing folks to set this change for all time based formtools.

[modius]

It would also be a nice feature to have a setting option (f.e. in the “General Configuration”) for the “minutes” dropdown list. In most cases it makes no sense to offer values from 0 to 59, which will force the user to scroll the dropdown list. A possible configuration choice could be f.e in periods of time.

Period of 30 minutes (0 / 30)
Period of 15 minutes (0 / 15 / 30 / 45)
Period of 10 minutes (0 / 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50)
Period of 5 minutes (0 / 5 / 10 / 15 / …)
Period of 1 minute (1 to 59)

I have want to force this to be simply:

Period of 15 minutes (0 / 15 / 30 / 45)

But maybe an attribute that allows you to set the interval might be more appropriate; for example, ftMinInterval="15"

[Knut]

But @justincarter wants to review options for having a locale setting that applies this, rather than forcing folks to set this change for all time based formtools.

Yes, that probably would be a better way.

But maybe an attribute that allows you to set the interval might be more appropriate; for example, ftMinInterval=“15”

Yes, an additional property ftMinInterval=“x” would be nice. But I think the the possible values must be able to be divided by 60.

[jorgenskogas]

@modius: I agree that this should be bound to locale choice or user profile. I will try to do some more work on it this week if you want.

[modius]

I will try to do some more work on this week if you want.

Your commits are always welcome

[justincarter]

I’ve created a skunkworks/p730 branch today which has better datetime precision support for MySQL.

I think it would be a good idea to submit your pull requests against this branch (whenever you are ready) so that it can form one of the main features for the 7.3 release There won’t be many other planned features for this version at this stage so we should be able to release it soon after it is ready.