Sunrise with wrong time format (AM/PM) - older forum threads already checked

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Re: Sunrise and Sunset plugin

Hi specialists

After setting up my new spare PI3B for pimatic, I realized that the sunrise plugin shows the time in the english format with AM / PM. I think I checked now realy each and every config item, so that it is the same as on my Prod-PI3B. I also went to former forum threats and followed the tipps, but it doesn’t change.

Also a variables device shows the correct format by “$current-time.formatted”:

sudo locale shows:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8

… and I already run through raspi-config twice:

Generating locales (this might take a while)...
….
….
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Current default time zone: 'Europe/Berlin'
Local time is now:      Sat Jul  6 10:54:15 CEST 2019.
Universal Time is now:  Sat Jul  6 08:54:15 UTC 2019.

Has one an idea what else I could do?

Let me check this. It is probably a bug which came in when I added the ability to set time zones on the sunrise device. Seems like the Moment.js timezone() setting and guessing no longer works as expected

EDIT: It seems to be an issue with newer version of node and internationalization support. It’ll need some time to get this sorted

Ok, thanks @mwittig

Edit: Additionally checked the node versions:
Prod-pimatic: 10.15.3 (24h format)
Test-pimatic: 10.16.0 (AM/PM format)

Hello @mwittig,
am I allowed to ask about the status of the time format-problem with the sunrise plugin?

As I did now a new installation from scratch, getting node 10.16.3 by this, I ran into the problem again.

I’m not able to convince the sunrise plugin to show the time in 24h format.
It only shows the AM/PM format.

Thanks

EDIT:
What also would help, as a work around, would be a ‘time command’ to convert the AM/PM times form the plugin into a 24h format.
I need this, to show the times of my shutters in the frontend, that the rest of the family is also able to read this easly and don’t mix morning and evening

Hallo @mwittig

the problem still exists about the time zones in the Sunrise plugin is there a solution yet.
I also use node 10.16.3

Thanks

I’m meanwhile using a workaround in minimum to show the respective times in a 24h format in the frontend.
The shutter-steering in the background doesn’t care for the format.

My point is/was, that my family wanted to be informed in the frontend, when the automatism starts to move the shutters.
The timeformat for the morning wasn’t the point, but for the early evening, that fomerly looks as the shutters move down before they move up.
E.g.: Morning up: 07:50 AM, Evening down: 06:30 PM. … and they hate to read the AM/PM format

So I red in the forum and tested around with a variables device, until the shown time fitted to the 24h format.
The calculation looks as follows:

subString(timeFormat(timeDecimal($sonnenstand.sunset)+($random+20)/60+12), “[0-Z]{5}”)

For sure, that “($random+20)/60” is not relevant, but the “+12”. It simply counts 06:30 up to 18:30

Maybe that helps for your purposes @ed-vrijmoet

Regards
Pedder

As @mwittig wrote before

“Let me check this. It is probably a bug which came in when I added the ability to set time zones on the sunrise device. Seems like the Moment.js timezone() setting and guessing no longer works as expected
EDIT: It seems to be an issue with newer version of node and internationalization support. It’ll need some time to get this sorted”

I checked in to Moment.js on github and there is an issue with time zones not displaying right see:
[link text]([link url]https://github.com/moment/moment-timezone/issues/647([link url](link url)))
There seems to be a solution for it
[link text]https://github.com/kylejacobbutler/moment-timezone-locale(link url)
I know it is 2 years old but still open.

Thanks