Qt.formatTime not formatted according to locale?

[il_bale]

I have a javascript Date object that I format with Qt.formatTime in my QML application like this:

Qt.formatTime(dateObject)

From the Qt documentation I was expecting this to be formatted according to the system locale, but instead it always appears on N9 as e.g. "09:58" (whereas I was expecting "9:58" or "09:58 AM" depending on the regional settings).

Does anybody know what is wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[kusumk]

Hi,

the doc says if format is not specified, time is formatted using Qt.DefaultLocaleShortDate.

Qt::SystemLocaleShortDate is for OS setting of date. Did you try giving this as the second arg in Qt.formatTime

[il_bale]

Hi,

the doc says if format is not specified, time is formatted using Qt.DefaultLocaleShortDate.

Qt::SystemLocaleShortDate is for OS setting of date. Did you try giving this as the second arg in Qt.formatTime

I did, but the result was the same.

[kusumk]

Hi,

Seems the binding is not done,
I have tried with the options too and it always shows the same time and never as per locale atleast.

https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-15416
This bug seems to be reported for the same issue.

[gnuton]

Hi,
I tried the following code and actually it doesn't work for me too.

import QtQuick 1.1

Rectangle {
width: 360
height: 360
//property time mTime: "20:10:00"

Text {
id: mText
//text: Qt.formatTime(mTime);
anchors.centerIn: parent
}
MouseArea {
anchors.fill: parent
onClicked: {
Qt.quit();
}
}

Component.onCompleted: {
var dateTime = new Date(2001, 5, 21, 14, 13, 09)
mText.text = Qt.formatTime(dateTime, Qt.SystemLocaleShortDate);
}
}

Here are the issues I found:
1. time property is missing in QML. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
2. locale doesn't work since system locale is not properly detected. (qDebug() << "LOCALE" << QLocale::system().name()

[vineet.jain]

May be you can customize as how would you like to see the format, like i tried this:

Qt.formatTime(new Date(2001, 5, 21, 9, 58, 09), "h:m ap") & what is get it 9:58 am.

[kusumk]

Yes, that can be done always, but it would be a sort of hardcoding, and if the system locale is changed then it still wouldnt match.

[aflegg]

Yes, that can be done always, but it would be a sort of hardcoding, and if the system locale is changed then it still wouldnt match.

I had this problem with Bedside, and the behaviour differs between Symbian, Maemo & Harmattan.

I've tried to handle it by exposing a property from C++, which goes to MTF to read the Harmattan settings.

[il_bale]

Yeah, it seems that MLocale is the way to go (QLocale also doesn't work). This is what I used:

MLocale* mLocale = new MLocale();
mLocale->formatDateTime(dateTime, MLocale:ateNone, MLocale::TimeShort);

There is also a signal to listen for changes in locale settings.