Allow the user to change the Date and Time Format

[Don42]

I would prefer to use ISO 8601 dates and times instead of the GER/EU time format.
My Android device is set to English, but with the data/time preferences set to ISO8601.

Relevant views are the detail talk view and favorites list view.

[cbeyls]

Date and time format should follow the device settings. To achieve that you need to use android.text.format.DateFormat.getTimeFormat() to format dates.

[johnjohndoe]

Which screen in particular are you referring to? I would appreciate if you could please add screenshots and highlight the dates.

[Don42]

I hope this works. I'm referring to the talk detail view.
https://seafile.0xbeef.org/f/717a184391/

[johnjohndoe]

[johnjohndoe]

What date formatting exactly would you like? I just checked the formatting when I run the device with German resp. English locale. Based on your example screenshot the output would be:

• English: 12/28/16
• German: 28.12.16

The formatting is based on SimpleDateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(SimpleDateFormat.SHORT, SimpleDateFormat.SHORT), see here.

[Don42]

I prefer ISO8601 format. Unfortunately there is no way to set this in the android locale.

[johnjohndoe]

Understood. - But as pointed out by @cbeyls Android apps follow the device locale settings. The only option that I see to let you customize the date format is by introducing an option in the application settings.
Though, I personally do not like this idea since it will make things more complicated and error prone. Any other thoughts, please?!

[Don42]

Haven't written any Java/Android for several years, so take everything with a grain of salt.
I should be possible to use a wrapper function that just calls the method as it does right now,
unless an option is set in the config to use another format.
According to the Android documentation, the correct format string would probably be "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mmZ". Although the timezone is probably irrelevant here.