Localize date decorator

[jariz]

Currently dates are always returned in English (or perhaps whatever the server default is?)
It'd be really great if dates returned would be returned in either the same language as the site where the entry comes from, or if you could at least manually specify a language through an extra argument.

[markhuot]

That makes sense. Could you please provide a GraphQL snippet showing how you are currently using the @date directive where it doesn't work?

[jariz]

My site language:

Query:

query {
  entry (type:News, site:"nl") {
    ... on News {
      date @date(as: "j F Y")
    }
  }
}

{
  "data": {
    "entry": {
      "date": "1 January 2019"
    }
  }
}

Expected output: (date format should match site's locale)

{
  "data": {
    "entry": {
      "date": "1 januari 2019"
    }
  }
}

[markhuot]

Yup, makes sense. Do you know if Craft does this natively in Twig templates? e.g., does this give you what you would expect in Twig for an entry on your nl site?

{{ entry.postDate|date('j F Y') }}

[jariz]

Seems to work as expected:

{{ 1547830750|date('j F Y') }}

[markhuot]

This is available on the dev-master branch and will go out with the next release. Note there are two updates here,

1. All @date(as: formatting should now use the locale of the entry that is being formatted
2. If you want to override this you can pass in a locale such as @date(as: "j F Y", locale: "nl")

[jariz]

Great, thanks @markhuot !