Date and Currency Formats

[TopicsLP]

Issue

With the date format MM/DD/YYYY the application can be open for confusion for the rest of the globe using different formats like:

• DD.MM.YYYY
• YYYY-MM-DD

The currency of $/USD may not be appealing to everyone, considerations should be taken to include other common values.

Proposed Solutions

For the date format you maybe able to add a setting to toggle to use a display of the date based on ISO8601/RFC3339 YYYY-MM-DD this is probably the simplest solution and I think a good compromise, but maybe also a drop-down to just selected the favored date format.

Currency, similar approach could be taken in the settings a drop-down to select common currency's:

• $ (USD)
• € (EUR)
• £ (GBP)
• Fr. (CHF)

[hargata]

@TopicsLP I was able to see the currency and date format changes by changing the regional culture on my computer, example(in English(Germany) is selected):

Is there a potential use case where the user might have their culture set to something else but need the currency on the app to display in another culture?

[TopicsLP]

Ok I did not verify that first,so besides the docker container issue it is not needed.
I agree on that most likely nearly no one needs a different date and currency format to their system locals, but maybe Linux (Desktop) Users ?

[manawenuz]

how do you change the regional culture on your docker container ?
also adding currency conversion at the time of fueling using an API would be super

[hoferbeck]

how do you change the regional culture on your docker container ?

I was able to change the culture by changing two Lines in the Dockerfile:
from:

ENV LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 \
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8

to

ENV LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 \
    LANG=de_DE.utf8

Its now looking better (but it seems to me, that the header isn't dynamic)

EDIT:

I oversaw that, I can set in the settings, to use Liters instead of Gallons (would be nice, if that is set by the Local Variables).
But the Date is still "wrong" MM-DD-YYYY instead of DD.MM.YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD

Now it looks like this for me:

[manawenuz]

ok, thank god, it doesn't change the language, i thought it's to change the language, and the word culture i guess is something from windows world and it was rather confusing, thanks, it solved my issue.

[florianschroen]

Only locale has been changed, which is for character encoding, primarily.

See https://wiki.debian.org/Locale for reference.

[hargata]

most if not all issues with locale has been fixed including decimal formatting for input and display.