Embed: dates are not localized

probus · April 27, 2015, 2:42pm

Dates always show up in default (US) locale in embedded comments.

downey · April 27, 2015, 3:56pm

Hmm. What do you mean “embedded comments”? Can you provide some detailed steps to reproduce this bug?

probus · April 28, 2015, 5:14am

Switch Discourse locale to any other than English
Embed Discourse comments on a website
UI is localised but dates are not on the embedded (iframe) comments

probus · August 12, 2015, 11:42am

Any updates on this?

probus · December 2, 2015, 9:47am

Still in English, but we can now at least hide them with CSS.

probus · April 15, 2016, 1:45pm

Happy anniversary!

fantasticfears · April 15, 2016, 6:57pm

Darkness leads me to this bug under the pale moonlight

But as a general tip, it would be definitely better if there is a link or screenshots. I can hardly understand what you are talking about if I haven’t translated the documentation

Embed comments:

The problem is in embed/comments.html.erb:

github.com/discourse/discourse

app/views/embed/comments.html.erb

main


      
              <%= link_to(I18n.t('embed.start_discussion'), @topic_view.topic.url, class: 'button', target: '_blank') %>
            <% elsif @reply_count >= 10 %>
              <%= link_to(I18n.t('embed.continue'), @second_post_url, class: 'button', target: '_blank') %>
            <% end %>
            <span class='replies'><%= I18n.t('embed.replies', count: @reply_count) %></span>
          </header>
          
          <%- if @topic_view.posts.present? %>
            <%- @topic_view.posts.each do |post| %>
              <article class='post<%- if post.trashed? %> deleted<% end %>' id='post-<%= post.id.to_s %>'>
                <%= link_to embed_post_date(post.created_at), post.full_url, title: embed_post_date_title(post.created_at), class: 'post-date', target: "_blank" %>
                <%- if post.reply_to_post.present? && !post.cooked.index('aside') %>
                  <%= link_to I18n.t('embed.in_reply_to', username: post.reply_to_post.username), post.reply_to_post.full_url, 'data-link-to-post' => post.reply_to_post.id.to_s, :class => 'in-reply-to', target: "_blank" %>
                <%- end %>
          
                <div class='author'>
                  <a rel='nofollow' href='<%= Discourse.base_url %>/u/<%= post.username %>' target="_blank"><img src='<%= post.user.small_avatar_url %>' alt=''></a>
                </div>
                <div class='cooked'>
                  <h3 class='username'>
                    <a rel='nofollow' href='<%= Discourse.base_url %>/u/<%= post.username %>' target="_blank" class='<% if post.user.staff? %>staff<% end %><% if post.user.new_user? %>new-user<% end %>'><%= post.user.username %></a>

then ember_helper.rb:

github.com/discourse/discourse

app/helpers/embed_helper.rb

main


      
          # frozen_string_literal: true
          
          module EmbedHelper
            def embed_post_date_title(dt)
              dt.strftime I18n.t("datetime_formats.formats.long")
            end
          
            def embed_post_date(dt)
              current = Time.now
          
              if dt >= 1.day.ago
                distance_of_time_in_words(dt, current)
              else

The fix can be either using the FreedomPatches::Rails4.distance_of_time_in_words, I18n.localize(dt, format: I18n.t("datetime_formats.formats.short_no_year")) or replace the link by a different translation string as the digest email.

; I don’t quite understand the current status of server time formats so I won’t fire PR here.

weber-s · February 27, 2024, 3:34pm

Hello,

Just ran into the same issue.

I see the issue with the localization here because potentially no user is connected so it is complicated to estimate its locale… but could it be a setting? For discourse instance targeting only one language community, it would make sens!

JammyDodger · February 28, 2024, 8:23am

This one seems to have been around for quite awhile. I wonder if this pushes it more into the #feature request territory rather than the bug bucket.

Lhc_fl · July 22, 2024, 10:44am

I have submitted a fix here:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/28014

Lhc_fl · July 24, 2024, 10:45am

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