Locale in node-red

[Aivaras Jonikas]

Hello,

I'm wondering about locale settings in node-red.

I am having issues when parsing the date - I am taking date in UK format e.g. 9/8/2017 and parsing it to UTC format.

The result I am getting is 2017-09-08 instead of 2017-08-09.

Windows settings are all set to English(United Kingdom).

I was browsing through node-red files and I found that there are some files in locale/en-US folder.

Also, I was trying to change defaultLang value in i18n.js, no effect.

Finally, I was searching for some downloads related to setting the right locale, also unsuccessfully.

So how can I change these settings?

Thanks, 

Aivaras 

[Nick O'Leary]

Currently the locale settings only apply to the language the editor/runtime is presented in - it has no affect on number formats, dates etc.

There is a branch that started looking at full bi-directional language support (and by extension, other locale-related preferences) but that work stalled a while ago. It may be picking up again - but its primarily an effort outside of the core node-red project so I can't say when that would be merged into node-red itself.

Nick

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[Julian Knight]

node-red-contrib-moment will format and convert date/time strings with locale and timezone as you want them.

[Aivaras Jonikas]

Hey,

Thanks Julian, it looks like it might be my solution. When reading documentation I found that there is a dependency for 'os-locale' in it.

The usage described as:

const osLocale = require('os-locale');

osLocale().then(locale => {
	console.log(locale);
});

I saw people reporting that this works for them in node.js code but in node-red I am getting result of en_US,

even if my location is set to UK in OS settings. Does it mean that it is taking locale from node-red or there might be any other issues?

Thanks,

Aivaras

[Aivaras Jonikas]

P.S.: To use it, I am adding the line in \settings.js:

functionGlobalContext: {

   locale: require('os-locale')

}

And then in node-red:

var oslocale = global.get("locale");

oslocale().then(locale => {

console.log(locale);

});

[Aivaras Jonikas]

Sorry for spamming but the issue was solved. 

In my location settings from Windows Search, setting location to UK didn't set my system locale, so I just had to set it 

in: Control Panel>Region>Change Location>Administrative>Change system locale --- Windows 8.

And changing this setting also solved the issue in parsing the date which was the original question in this thread.

Thanks all for the help!

Aivaras