Date format doesn't support localization

[Doug Fish]

On the Admin/Overview panel (and likely others),the date format cannot be localized. It appears to be hardcoded to the ISO format. (YYYY-MM-DD).

[Doug Fish (drfish)]

I'm looking at the code here and thinking about what needs to happen to support a date format. One of the obstacles is going to be that javascript and python don't use the same syntax for formatting dates. I hope to find a subset of python date formats for which I can generate and equivalent javascript format. Are there other known/obvious obstacles I'm going to encounter?

[Doug Fish (drfish)]

We have hardcoded several places the date format of '%Y-%m-%d', however the date picker describes the same format as 'yyyy-mm-dd'. The key to this problem is to sort out how a date format can be consistently represented across our Django, Angular, and other javascript code.

[Swati Sharma (swati-shukla1)]

Hi,

I would like to propose a better way-out for this.
In 'User Settings' section, there will be a drop-down which lists all the date-time formats possible.
Each user selects his preferred format, which will be applicable in the Overview panel.

Kindly suggest if this suits fine.

[Matthias Runge (mrunge)]

Swati, the issue is, data can not be stored somewhere. If you want this, you need to configure a database, which horizon does not use.
Other solution: store in keystone (preferred, but imho not implemented yet)

[Akihiro Motoki (amotoki)]

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