24 hours instead of AM / PM

[berti34]

The WebUI shows date and time in 12 hours format:
2024-04-24 at 12:30:17 AM - ....
That is 0:30:17 in the morning. That confuses when in a hurry...

How can I switch to get the 24 hours format?

I'm using Backrest 0.17.2 on many different Linux and Windows systems as binary.

[berti34]

Hi again! Do you think you can add that switch to the settings e.g. in version 1.0.0 maybe?
Greetings
Berthold

[garethgeorge]

Hey, looks like the browser provides an internationalized date time formatting API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/DateTimeFormat

I think using this in https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest/blob/main/webui/src/lib/formatting.ts#L20-L36 should be the right approach.

[kinghat]

im not sure if this is related. if not i can open a separate issue. i have a new plan that has never run and the plan schedule set to the default: 0:0 time:

with the config of:

  "cron": "0 0 * * *",

but in the plans tree view it says its scheduled for 7:00:00 PM:

[garethgeorge]

Are you using docker? This tends to happen when the timezone in the container is incorrect.

[kinghat]

Are you using docker? This tends to happen when the timezone in the container is incorrect.

yep, that makes sense. i think the linuxserver containers use this in their compose but not sure if TZ is something special to them:

    environment:
      - TZ=US/East

and the forgejo container mounts these volumes in compose:

    volumes:
      - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

[garethgeorge]

Yep! For backrest I think just setting the TZ variable should be enough. It’s handled by the tzdata alpine package added to the docked image.

[garethgeorge]

89a49c1 updates the time formatting to use the locale.

[berti34]

Are you using docker? This tends to happen when the timezone in the container is incorrect.

No, just the binary version on Arm64, AMD64 and Windows 10.

[garethgeorge]

Just released 1.0.0 which will try to use the locale from your browser, let me know if that's working for you.

[berti34]

Hi again,

looks good! Thank you!

[modem]

For me still shows AM and PM:

I have TZ set on the environment variables

    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/Lisbon

Inside the container it looks good:

Is there any other change needed?

[berti34]

I have not changed anything else except the binary

[modem]

I'm on docker.

[kinghat]

I'm on docker.

try clearing your browser cache.

[garethgeorge]

The setting is based on your browser's locale for time formatting.

[modem]

I see it now, but it does not make sense to me. I have my browser language set to US English but there's no place to define the regional settings. And in fact this is the only software I access in the browser where I see this behavior. If we define the TZ environment variable, Backrest should stick to that instead of the browser settings.

[libeanim]

I have a similar problem, the browser locale seems sometimes inconsistent.
My system is US English, but I selected Germany as region, meaning my system shows everything in 24h:

Also my broswer has German and locale Germany as preferred language for websites:

Yet on backrest its still AM and PM, it only works if I manually override the locale in the dev console. Then its in 24h.
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/69149258

I guess its a minor issue and I am not sure if this is a browser bug or with backrest.

[modem]

I use Firefox and I don't find any setting to define the region, only the language. But I prefer the language set to English than to my mother language.
If we define the Timezone environment variable backrest should stick to that.

[berti34]

Fore me it works as expected, so I can close this ticket.
Thanks