Momentjs Locales

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I’m using the the bootstrap3 datetimepicker from


which relies on momentjs. I am trying to get it to use en-gb locale so that dates will be display as dd/mm/yyyy but it doesn’t work. So I have tried drilling down to setting locales directly on moment() and (both mrt:moment and momentjs:moment) but locales just don’t seem to work.

When I look in Chrome inspect at the sources the locales files don’t seem to be there?

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I also had trouble getting moment locales to work.
Got it working by placing my moment-nl.js deep down in /lib/config and calling moment.locale('nl'); from Meteor.startup.

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Thanks, I’ll try that. Is it important that it goes in a ‘config’ folder?

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No, /lib is ok too, it’s just where I use to keep these sort of things…

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I guess as many others, I had to solve this exact same problem for LibreBoard — which is available in 6 languages. For this purpose I forked the official momentjs package and included all translation files as package “assets”. When the TAPi18n locale is changed, I reactively download the translation file (using $.ajax) and configure it (see implementation). As far as I can tell it works perfectly well :slight_smile:

I published my fork in github https://github.com/mquandalle/moment, and atmosphere mquandalle:moment. At some point I hope we could merge my changes back in the official package.

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This works perfect, thanks

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You need to add the language files and then call moment.locale();

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I’m struggling with this as well. I’d like ‘en-ie’ (not that it differs much from ‘en-gb’ ). I did the following:

Downloaded en-ie.js from github and placed it in my /lib directory.

Then in my lib/init.js I call moment.locale(‘en-ie’);

Now on the server it works. moment.locale() returns ‘en-ie’ and moment().format(‘L’) returns DD/MM/YYYY.

But on the client moment.locale() returns ‘en’ and likewise the date is MM/DD/YYYY.

If in the console I type moment.locale(‘en-ie’) again then it all works so I suspect moment locale on the client is being overridden after startup. I added some console.log straight after setting it in startup and it does get set, but something is setting it back to plain ‘en’ sometime thereafter.

Anyone know anything about this?

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As so often happens, the solution comes straight after posting.

I had included risul:moment-timezone. By removing that and adding the mrt:moment-timezone it’s acting as expected.

Of course, this timezone implementation doesn’t have the moment.tz.setDefault() so now I have another problem.

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