Will Plex ever provide support for NON-U.S. date format?

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It bugs me that time is spent developing new features (like Discover) when issues like no support for international Date/Time format still exist.

Let me ask you Americans how much it would bug you if all your date info was presented in a format which is completely different (backwards) to that which you are used to and prefer. It seems no American developer of Plex ever thinks about this stuff because you all think that the whole world uses the American format.

Given that the U.S. is the only country which uses the “backwards” format and that Americans represent only 4.2% of the world population, I am asking (begging) that this is sorted soon.

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I remember this used to be an issue. Then again, I haven’t seen an American date format in Plex for quite some time (just sorted my library by release date and the date labels are all in my local format).

In what app / app version are you still seeing those?

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I would be hugely relieved! The American format is nuts …

Dates are visible when editing metadata - is that where they aren’t localized?

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Hmm… when editing the release dates, they seem to be displayed in a more international/neutral format (YYYY-MM-DD). However it appears the release date labels showing when sorting a library by release date in Plex Web are indeed not localized :worried:

Edit: reported this to Plex; I’m not having this issue on the iOS app

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Everything in the DVR, Live TV and Recorded TV are displayed using MM/DD. This is the case with every Client (Samsung Smart TV, Xbox, iPhone, Web Client etc.) and on the Windows PC (Server) web interface. All are the very latest versions.

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The big question is: which language did you select in your clients?
Because if you leave it at the default “English”, then the date format is indeed the American one.
But there is also “English for the UK” or other languages altogether.

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A small example. Language Danish with timeformat 24 Hours.

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DVR Schedule settings:

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Discover page:

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Showing a photo:

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Lots of different places … mix of US and DK formats and monthnames.

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The Discovery page is already in the works.

The DVR issue is also known, but apparently not very high on the priority list.

Any other places?

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I personally wouldn’t be bothered. But I can understand the frustration.

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Everything is always set to UK English including all my Plex clients. If only it was that simple.

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As far as I can discern, this is also DVR related.
Can you recreate this with a more recent recording?

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This is a screen grab from my windows server, but it is the same on the Samsung TV client. As you can see even the episode numbering is wrong because it is based on the American date format.

These are meant to be the 7th, 8th and 9th of April 2922. They should be episodes 07, 08 and 09 of 04. On Deck date is also wrong format.

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Thanks for confirmation. However, I don’t get episode titles like these in my DVR.
I have my language set to German. So I’m quite sure this date format is localizable.

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But it appears it hasn’t been done in the English (UK) project over at Transifex.
I think I have identified the right string: it should be number 2,486.
It’s in the “Web Clients” project. Web Clients localization

(The screenshot is from the German translation. I have unfortunately no access to the English (UK) project.)

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But it should provide enough information for someone who is a member of the translation team for English UK.

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Thanks for tracking this down. Let’s just hope that the right people are watching this thread and have enough motivation to do something about it.

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Basically everything in the DVR section of Plex (including the schedule) is presented in the wrong date format for English UK settings.

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Am I correct in my assumption that the following date formats are considered “correct” in Britain?

  • just day of month and month name abbreviated 12 Apr
  • day, month name, and full year 12 April 2022
  • day, month, and short year numerically 12.04.22 (are slashes more common/preferred over dots?)
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Be better if it was 12th April as that is more how it would be sad
People would says its the Twelfth of April, never heard it said as Twelve April

But how you show it would be fine

Last one could be personal preference, I have always used slashes when writing a date, 12/04/22,

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What’s weird is this: I think I am at the same page as OP, but when I set my client language to English UK I get these date formats on my recorded episodes:

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They are sorted correctly and you can see that the first number is indeed the day, not the month.

@BradGrove which Plex app did you use to make your above screen shots?

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Do these date not come from the EPG provider being used (data at the time of recording, not looked up via online databases)

Looking at the above screenshots, the OP has recorded 10 News First, with an image with icetv on it (Australian news show and Australian epg provider)

Is this date just used from what icetv provide, not one provided via Plex