Embed: dates are not localized

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

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

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  1. Switch Discourse locale to any other than English
  2. Embed Discourse comments on a website
  3. UI is localised but dates are not on the embedded (iframe) comments
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Any updates on this?

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

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Happy anniversary! :birthday: :gift:

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Darkness leads me to this bug under the pale moonlight :new_moon:

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 :frowning:

Embed comments:

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

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/views/embed/comments.html.erb#L13

then ember_helper.rb:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/helpers/embed_helper.rb#L3

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.

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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!

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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. :thinking:

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