Date formatting, locale ?

[starfire]

I'm using the docker SageTV and I'm based in the UK.

I notice that dates are being displayed in american MM/DD/YY format, under Windows I used to get UK DD/MM/YY format.

Any idea how to change, I presume it's something to do with locale and I notice when Sage starts:

Thu 10/6 15:02:38.681 [main@7440e464] JVM version=1.8.0_101
Thu 10/6 15:02:38.681 [main@7440e464] OS=Linux 4.4.19-unRAID
Thu 10/6 15:02:38.682 [main@7440e464] client=false
Thu 10/6 15:02:38.682 [main@7440e464] locale=en_US
Thu 10/6 15:02:38.689 [ThreadMonitor@a6c600b] Thread CPU monitoring started interval=300000
Thu 10/6 15:02:38.697 [main@7440e464] SageTV V9.0.9.439

Any ideas, if I found a way of changing that to en_GB would that resolve the issue?

[Fuzzy]

try setting

ui/translation_language_code=en
ui/translation_country_code=GB

in Sage.properties

[starfire]

I'll give it a bash, thanks.

ps. this issue occurs on my extenders only, my windows client displays date fine

[starfire]

Unfortunately that didn't change the date displayed on the extenders

In the startup log it does now report:

hu 10/6 23:17:46.645 [main@7440e464] JVM version=1.8.0_101
Thu 10/6 23:17:46.646 [main@7440e464] OS=Linux 4.4.19-unRAID
Thu 10/6 23:17:46.646 [main@7440e464] client=false
Thu 10/6 23:17:46.646 [main@7440e464] locale=gb_EN

edit:

I note this error at the start of the logs:

Thu 10/6 23:17:46.547 [main@7440e464] Error processing TZ:Europe/London threw:java.text.ParseException: Missing non-optional hours
Thu 10/6 23:17:46.552 [main@7440e464] Changed default timezone to:Greenwich Mean Time

[Fuzzy]

that's odd. are you sure you didn't get the properties backwards? typically, locale should be displayed as [language]_[COUNTRY], and indeed, when the settings are null, it is displayed as the default en_US - but for some reason, you are now showing gb_EN, when it SHOULD be en_GB.

In any case, if those properties are empty or missing, sage will use the default locale of the system (it gets this from the JVM environment). I'm not sure if unRAID has a locale setting easily accessible for it, but I'm guessing it is set to en_US (as is typically the default in linux environments).

[starfire]

Your right, had them the wrong way around

All OK now, thanks for the advice

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by starfire

Your right, had them the wrong way around

All OK now, thanks for the advice

So dates are displaying correctly now? Just wanted to make sure the locale was working properly (thinking it was since the windows based ones were). The 'real' fix would still be to figure out how to set the locale properly in unRAID, but at least the sage.properties tweak will work for sage related things.

[starfire]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

So dates are displaying correctly now?

Yes, DD/MM/YY as expected for GB.

And the log reports:

Fri 10/7 10:24:51.034 [main@7440e464] locale=en_GB

[Tiki]

Originally Posted by starfire

Yes, DD/MM/YY as expected for GB.

And the log reports:

Fri 10/7 10:24:51.034 [main@7440e464] locale=en_GB

Interesting that the time stamps in the log are still MM/DD. I wonder if that is determined by the Docker locale.

[Fuzzy]

I think that's just because the locale does not have a translation for the Day Month/Date Time format that the log uses, so it doesn't localize it, and just passes through the 'default' format. Locale's are a strange situation unless you use standardized formats, which the log entry does not do.

[SimonH]

Sorry to bump an old thread - but I've just successfully converted my Windows 10 SageTV server into a VM running on Unraid and I noticed the dates had curiously reverted to MDY format in the extender UI.

I added the locale in the properties as suggested and this seems to have fixed the issue - thanks!