ctime & mtime date format

[ghost]

yazi --debug output

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Please describe the problem you're trying to solve

The current date format for ctime and mtime linemodes are mm/dd and I wish to be able to change it to the more conventional dd/mm without writing a custom linemode.

Anyway, thank you for making this super fast ducky file manager. Cheers!

Would you be willing to contribute this feature?

• Yes, I'll give it a shot

Describe the solution you'd like

Maybe it would be good to have an option to format linemodes in the configuration file?

I would contribute but all I know is some terrible python, sorry.

Additional context

No response

Validations

• I have searched the existing issues
• The latest nightly build of Yazi doesn't already have this feature

[sxyazi]

Maybe it would be good to have an option to format linemodes in the configuration file?

This kind of ruins the point of allowing users to override the linemode, because the whole purpose of supporting it was to avoid adding extra options. I'm certain that it's impossible to cover all users' needs with options, and doing so would bloat Yazi. Plus, overriding it is really simple, requiring just a few lines of Lua code, and it has no impact on performance or the need to recompile the source code.

However, I can consider changing the default date format from %m/%d to %d/%m if it makes things more convenient for most of users - I'll turn this issue into a discussion to see what other users think.

[xfzv]

However, I can consider changing the default date format from %m/%d to %d/%m if it makes things more convenient for most of users - I'll turn this issue into a discussion to see what other users think.

My two cents: I'm using a custom linemode so I don't really care about the default. %m/%d makes much more sense to me than %d/%m though.

Assuming chronological listing is wanted, let's take March 8th and August 3rd (same year) for example:

• With %m/%d:

  • 03/08 (March 8th)
  • 08/03 (August 3rd)

• With %d/%m:

  • 03/08 (August 3rd)
  • 08/03 (March 8th)

August 3rd being listed before March 8th just feels wrong to me.

[verga]

I advice using the international standard ISO 8601

YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm

or other combinations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

[prosoitos]

100% agree. That's the default in programming languages and most tools out there

[njhallett]

or maybe use the locale of the user's system

locale -k LC_TIME

([cultureinfo]::CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat).ShortDatePattern

[jozsefk9]

dd/mm would work better for me too. Didn't get used to mm/dd at all. But if I could customize it by myself, or if I would know how to do it, this is how I would make it to look like: 03Nov2024 @ 22^59^47

[moshpirit]

Thanks! What a wonderful tool! I turned it into this: if the file/directory is from previous years, it will be shown, if not, will stay hidden to keep it simple:

function Linemode:mtimev2()
    local current_year = os.date("%Y") -- Get the current year as a string
    local time = math.floor(self._file.cha.modified or 0)
    if time > 0 then
        local file_year = os.date("%Y", time) -- Get the file's year
        local time_format
        if file_year == current_year then
            time_format = os.date("%d/%b %H:%M", time) -- Without year
        else
            time_format = os.date("%d/%b/%Y %H:%M", time) -- With year
        end
        return ui.Line(string.format(time_format))
    end
    return ui.Line("") -- Return empty if no time exists
end

function Linemode:ctimev2()
    local current_year = os.date("%Y") -- Get the current year as a string
    local time = math.floor(self._file.cha.created or 0)
    if time > 0 then
        local file_year = os.date("%Y", time) -- Get the file's year
        local time_format
        if file_year == current_year then
            time_format = os.date("%d/%b %H:%M", time) -- Without year
        else
            time_format = os.date("%d/%b/%Y %H:%M", time) -- With year
        end
        return ui.Line(string.format(time_format))
    end
    return ui.Line("") -- Return empty if no time exists
end

[matejdro]

Is this compatible with the latest Yazi? For me time is always 0

[rod-stuchi]

It's very simple to override the methods, check out how it's done:
https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/blob/main/yazi-plugin/preset/components/linemode.lua

init.lua

function Linemode:mtime()
  -- your override logic
end

[dmolin]

It would be much simpler to use the current system locale instead of having to write Lua code to tweak stuff.
Writing a Lua function for the linemode doesn't fix things; Yazi will still use the YY/MM/DD everywhere else.

Picking up the system locale (LC_TIME) would be the most efficient thing to do, so each user can set the date format he wants to and this will apply to Yazi everywhere dates are involved.

[barsikus007]

I made my own init.lua based on original, but with 2077-12-31 format

yazi/yazi-plugin/preset/components/linemode.lua

Line 25 in 157156b

function Linemode:size()

function strip_date_year(time_to_format)
  local time = math.floor(time_to_format or 0)
  if time == 0 then
    return ""
  elseif os.date("%Y", time) == os.date("%Y") then
    return os.date("%m-%d %H:%M", time)
  else
    return os.date("%Y-%m-%d", time)
  end
end
function Linemode:btime()
  return strip_date_year(self._file.cha.btime)
end
function Linemode:mtime()
  return strip_date_year(self._file.cha.mtime)
end