Option to control format of date-output

[christophhalbi]

Hi,

Is there any option to control the format of the date-output in header/footer?

[michaelrsweet]

No, HTMLDOC just uses the date format from the current locale. What are you trying to do?

[christophhalbi]

I run htmldoc from the perl-world via open3 and looking for a way to get the correct locale into the header via --header=D..

[michaelrsweet]

Are you basing it on the server's locale, or do you want it to match the web browser language (Accept-Language header)?

[christophhalbi]

On the server's locale

[michaelrsweet]

OK, well it should be picking it up already. What are the values of the LANG and LC_xxx environment variables?

[christophhalbi]

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL isn't set

I tried

LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 htmldoc --quiet --webpage -t pdf --jpeg --no-link --header D.. --footer D./ --outfile foo.pdf foo.html

But it didn't change anything

[michaelrsweet]

OK, take a deeper look into this - it should be picking up the locale for the date/time format. What OS/Linux distribution are you using?

[christophhalbi]

Thank you

NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="15.3"

[christophhalbi]

htmldoc --version
1.9.12

[michaelrsweet]

Try:

LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" htmldoc ...

[christophhalbi]

Hi,

No, doesn't work.

[christophhalbi]

What's interesting: without LC_ALL or LC_TIME I get something like 03/22/2022 05:56:29 AM. When I use LC_ALL I get 22.03.2022 05:57:32.
So it actually does something.

[michaelrsweet]

Right, I'm not sure if there is a way to customize the date format for a particular locale (I think you need to edit the glibc sources), so right now the best you can do is find a locale that formats the date and time the way you like and set LC_TIME accordingly.

[michaelrsweet]

OK, I've updated HTMLDOC to support date/time format strings so you can customize things:

[master a67e9cc] Add support for "$DATE(format)" and "$TIME(format)" header/footer strings (Issue #472)

This will be part of the upcoming HTMLDOC 1.9.16 release.

[christophhalbi]

Thank you very much!