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janh's avatar
janh
Mentor
12 years ago

Rest API call for Date to show user selected Date Format

Hi there,

 

Currently we use the following code to pull the date from a post and then display at a particular date format, 'MM/dd/yyyy':

<#assign date = message.post_time?datetime("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'+00:00'") />      

${date?string("MM/dd/yyyy")} ${message.post_time.@view_time}

 

The output would look like as follows: 02/27/2012 05:59 PM , which works well enough but I noticed that users can select their own format like dd-MM-yyyy or yyyy-MM-dd.

 

Does anyone know if there is a way to get the date format selected by the user in their settings so the code can display the date as per their format setting?

 

Cheers

  • JuergenH's avatar
    JuergenH
    Lithium Alumni (Retired)
    12 years ago

    Hey Jan,

     

    have you checked the API documentation

     

    According to the documentation, the view_date parameter will only return the format of the registered user submitting the call - so this will only work if you have access to the user account. I did not find any solution to get the format for any registered user unfortunately.

     

    If a request specifies the parameter restapi.response_style with the value view, the response will include attributes that relate the elements to the standard web interface. The attributes include

    AttributeDescription
    view_href For elements that are associated with a page in the standard web interface, this specifies the URL for that page.
    view_date Included in date/time elements. This provides a date string formatted as expected by the Lithium user associated with the call.
    view_time Included in date/time elements. This provides a time string formatted as expected by the Lithium user associated with the call.