Mobile HTML5 App - determining a users date/time preferences?

Question

Is there any way via HTML5, proprietary apis, or PhoneGap to obtain the date format a given user is likely to want?

I currently display everything as MM/dd/yyyy, but this is confusing for any users who live in dd/MM/yyyy countries.

via javascript since the question is tag with javascript. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/85116/how-do-i-display-a-date-time-in-the-users-locale-format-and-time-offset — Danny, Mar 27 '12 at 19:13

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '12 at 19:17

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I believe you will want to look into the Globalization plugin's getDatePattern method.

answered Mar 27 '12 at 19:17

Simon MacDonald

I'm currently using PhoneGap build to avoid the hassle of building, so I hope this isn't the only solution. If it is, then I need to start begging the phonegap build guys to support this plugin. :P +1 regardless. – Stefan Kendall Mar 27 '12 at 19:25

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 27 '12 at 19:58

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The simplest way to determine the local day-month/month-day order is to check it.

You can check once and save it as a boolean to use in any input or output date formatting.

(this returns true if the date should precede the month- feel free to reverse it!).

Date.datefirst= (function(){
    return Date.parse('2/6/2009')> Date.parse('6/2/2009');
})()

answered Mar 27 '12 at 19:58

kennebec

Date.parse is locale dependent? If this works on phones, this is exactly what I need. I'll accept once I've confirmed. – Stefan Kendall Mar 28 '12 at 01:47

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