Hi everyone!
I just noticed that the dates on the version of the F-Droid website are showing wrong right now. Like, for example, you might see something such as “12d Sep 26.” This happens because the current Persian(farsi) “news.date_format” is not being interpreted how it should be by Ruby’s “strftime” or is not in the way we expected. So I opened a MR to repair the Persian date display and to also show those dates on the site using the Jalali (Solar Hijri) calendar.
What the MR does:
- fixes the broken Persian date display
- converts Gregorian dates to Jalali for the Persian site
- keeps the existing Gregorian date behavior for the other languages
- adds tests for Jalali dates across a pretty wide historical and future range
I’d really like some feedback from Persian-speaking users. Also from F-Droid contributors. About the date format and also if keeping the Persian date format inside the plugin is the preferred choice rather than handling it via Weblate.