{"id":19400,"date":"2017-10-30T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19400"},"modified":"2017-10-30T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:00:06","slug":"ios-11-changes-localized-date-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/30\/ios-11-changes-localized-date-handling\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 11 Changes Localized Date Handling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jaanus.com\/ios-11-changes-localized-date-handling\/\">Jaanus Kase<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/jaanus.com\/ios-11-changes-localized-date-handling\/\">\n<p>If you enable Estonian language\/region support as shown on the above image, and developers are formatting dates with the correct\/default NSDateFormatter approach that Apple has trained them to do for years, then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; in iOS 10, you see dates and times in Estonian in many apps, even those that are not explicitly localized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; in iOS 11, you see dates and times in Estonian only in those apps that are themselves localized into Estonian. Which, let&rsquo;s be honest, is like 2 apps out of a million. The dates shown in the apps are <em>not<\/em> what Apple shows as &ldquo;Region Format Example&rdquo; in the screenshot. Unless you are on the home screen, which nevertheless chooses to still show the date in Estonian, making affairs just more confusing.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>From a purist standpoint, seeing Frankenstein UI where English-language apps have Estonian dates in them may be undesirable. As a user, though, I am not a purist. I am a human. I prefer my own language, even if the support is Frankenstein-like and incomplete.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaanus Kase: If you enable Estonian language\/region support as shown on the above image, and developers are formatting dates with the correct\/default NSDateFormatter approach that Apple has trained them to do for years, then&#8230; &#8230; in iOS 10, you see dates and times in Estonian in many apps, even those that are not explicitly localized. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[69,31,1472,309,364],"class_list":["post-19400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","category-technology","tag-cocoa","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-localization","tag-time"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19401,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400\/revisions\/19401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}