Display Activity publish date following locale

This is an improved user experience over displaying the raw ISO 8601
date stored in the ActivityStream JSON-LD.

4 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/archive_parser.cpp b/src/archive_parser.cpp
index d16cd49..2522ffa 100644
--- a/src/archive_parser.cpp
+++ b/src/archive_parser.cpp
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <QJsonParseError>
 #include <QTextDocument>
 #include <QFileInfo>
+#include <QDateTime>
 
 Archive::Archive(QString outbox_filename, ArchiveType archive_type) :
     outbox_filename(outbox_filename), archive_type(archive_type) {}
@@ -264,15 +265,19 @@ QString Archive::get_html_status_attachments(QJsonValueRef attachments_ref, int
 }
 
 // status_index is assumed to be a valid index
-QString Archive::get_html_status_info(int status_index, int text_zone_width, StatusType status_type) {
+QString Archive::get_html_status_info(int status_index, int text_zone_width, StatusType status_type, QLocale* locale) {
     QString info_text(*get_html_status_info_template());
     QJsonObject obj = outbox_items->at(status_index).toObject();
 
     if (obj.contains("type") and obj["type"].isString())
         info_text.replace("{{type}}", obj["type"].toString());
 
-    if (obj.contains("published") and obj["published"].isString())
-        info_text.replace("{{published}}", obj["published"].toString());
+    if (obj.contains("published") and obj["published"].isString()) {
+        // TODO: add a UI setting for configuring the display of local time or UTC time.
+        QDateTime date = QDateTime::fromString(obj["published"].toString(), Qt::ISODate).toLocalTime();
+        // Using QLocale::toString() is forward compatible with Qt 6 as QDateTime::toString() will not return anymore a string in the system locale.
+        info_text.replace("{{published}}", locale->toString(date));
+    }
 
     if (obj.contains("id") and obj["id"].isString())
         info_text.replace("{{url-id}}", obj["id"].toString());
diff --git a/src/archive_parser.h b/src/archive_parser.h
index 5d45812..6b2baa4 100644
--- a/src/archive_parser.h
+++ b/src/archive_parser.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ public:
     InitError init();
 
     void update_status_list(ViewStatusTypes allowed_types, QListWidget *parent);
-    QString get_html_status_info(int status_index, int text_zone_width, StatusType status_type);
+    QString get_html_status_info(int status_index, int text_zone_width, StatusType status_type, QLocale* locale);
     QString get_html_status_text(int status_index);
 private:
     QString outbox_filename;
diff --git a/src/mainwindow.cpp b/src/mainwindow.cpp
index 0437826..b08fd14 100644
--- a/src/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/src/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ void MainWindow::on_actionAbout_triggered(bool checked) {
 void MainWindow::on_listWidget_itemActivated(QListWidgetItem *item) {
     ListItem* casted = dynamic_cast<ListItem*>(item);
     if (casted != nullptr) {
-        QString status_info = data_archive->get_html_status_info(casted->get_status_index(), ui->statusInfoText->width(), casted->get_status_type());
+        QString status_info = data_archive->get_html_status_info(casted->get_status_index(), ui->statusInfoText->width(), casted->get_status_type(), &locale_context);
         ui->statusInfoText->setHtml(status_info);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/mainwindow.h b/src/mainwindow.h
index c37ce28..8bfa3b2 100644
--- a/src/mainwindow.h
+++ b/src/mainwindow.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 #include <QMainWindow>
 #include <QListWidgetItem>
+#include <QLocale>
 #include <qobjectdefs.h>
 
 #include "archive_parser.h"
@@ -51,4 +52,6 @@ private:
     bool view_filters_changed = false;
 
     Archive *data_archive = nullptr;
+
+    QLocale locale_context;
 };