I’ve installed Discourse on Ubuntu locally, outside of Docker. How can I convert the dates in the forum to Jalali dates? Thanks

There is some information on this in [image] How to properly display jalali dates for Persian language Translations It looks like there are moment.js plugins for Hijri and Jalali calenders: Moment.js | Docs To see how easy it’s to use, I cloned the Hijri plugin into vendor folder and changed the dates formats in client.ar.yml according to the plugin documentation and I got it to display Hijri dates in a few places: [image] (July 2017 is in 1438 Hijri year) I’m guessing it didn’t display Hijri dates in all places because those were using different core methods for displaying dates and might need to be twe…

Would this help? [shgnInc] How can I change calender to Persian calender (like in KDE)? 14.04, unity, calendar, date asked by shgnInc on 03:40AM - 22 May 14 UTC I don’t know if Discourse takes heed of such a specific localisation. Sorry!

Well I just found out Discourse supports locale modules. So somebody more knowledgeable than me will be able to guide you, I am, confident.

[image] Andrew Bernard: Would this help? Thank you very much for answering. No unfortunately. What I meant was how can I convert the date of posts and other dates displayed in the forum from Gregorian to jalali.

You can set the Default Locale to Persian/Farsi in the Admin Settings interface. That might work. There doesn’t seem to be a way for an individual Discourse user to set their preferred locale - I suppose their browser will send that information with each request. I see that Chrome offers a Language Setting which includes Persian. Maybe that will work.

[image] Ed S: You can set the Default Locale to Persian/Farsi in the Admin Settings interface. That might work. Thank you very much for answering. No unfortunately.

Ah, sorry it didn’t help. I think you may need some kind of plugin.

So @serkhelesheyi what exact locale is it that you want? Not obvious from your OP. If it does not exist I believe locale modules are pluggable and somebody could write you one. Also, as an aside, you will find support people here strongly recommend installing Discourse via Docker and are generally loth to help with non Docker installs, as any number of things could be different to the standard setup. Just by the way.

Changing locale to Iran/Farsi, the only difference it makes is that it shows the Gregorian months in Persian letters. What I want to do is to display the months of the Jalali calendar, not the Gregorian calendar.

If you have a budget, you could request some help on the marketplace. Marketplace A hub for all Discourse-related commerce: jobs, gigs, plugins, themes, hosting, and more.

No, unfortunately I don’t have a budget, but thank you very much for introducing marketplace.

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