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HTML/JS template filter to show localized dates/times

Author:
mback2k
Posted:
April 12, 2009
Language:
Python
Version:
1.0
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While working on my website projects today I had the idea to use HTML/JS instead of a IP database to localize the dates and times shown on the websites.

Here are the snippets to use the JS snippets as filters for Django running on Google App Engine. You can use those filters on datetime objects.

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# ./utils/localdatetimefilters.py
from time import mktime
from google.appengine.ext import webapp

def localdate(value, arg=None):
    from django.conf import settings
    from django.template import defaultfilters
    if not value:
        return ''
    if arg is None:
        arg = settings.DATE_FORMAT
    content = '''<script type="text/javascript">document.write(new Date(%d).toLocaleDateString().replace(/\s[A-Z]{3}\+[0-9]{4}/, '').replace(/\s\([\s\w]+\)/, ''));</script><noscript>%s</noscript>''' % (
        mktime(value.utctimetuple())*1000,
        defaultfilters.date(value, arg)
    )
    return content

def localtime(value, arg=None):
    from django.conf import settings
    from django.template import defaultfilters
    if not value:
        return ''
    if arg is None:
        arg = settings.TIME_FORMAT
    content = '''<script type="text/javascript">document.write(new Date(%d).toLocaleTimeString().replace(/\s[A-Z]{3}\+[0-9]{4}/, '').replace(/\s\([\s\w]+\)/, ''));</script><noscript>%s</noscript>''' % (
        mktime(value.utctimetuple())*1000,
        defaultfilters.time(value, arg)
    )
    return content

def localdatetime(value, arg1=None, arg2=None):
    from django.conf import settings
    from django.template import defaultfilters
    if not value:
        return ''
    if arg1 is None:
        arg1 = settings.DATE_FORMAT
    if arg2 is None:
        arg2 = settings.TIME_FORMAT
    content = '''<script type="text/javascript">document.write(new Date(%d).toLocaleString().replace(/\s[A-Z]{3}\+[0-9]{4}/, '').replace(/\s\([\s\w]+\)/, ''));</script><noscript>%s %s</noscript>''' % (
        mktime(value.utctimetuple())*1000,
        defaultfilters.date(value, arg1),
        defaultfilters.time(value, arg2)
    )
    return content

register = webapp.template.create_template_register()
register.filter(localdate)
register.filter(localtime)
register.filter(localdatetime)

# ./main.py (Request handler)
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template

def main():
    webapp.template.register_template_library('utils.localdatetimefilters')

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Comments

ramusus (on April 16, 2009):

So many equal rows in code! What about DRY principle?

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