Describe the bug:
The relative date shows correctly in the app builder preview, but on iPhone in chrome browser and safari browser it shows incorrectly
Expected Behaviour:
The relative date (how many days ago) should be the same both in the app builder preview and on a mobile device
How to replicate:
Open swapsy.co.nz on your mobile device and login as Rollo Wenlock (email me for login credentials rollowenlock@gmail.com)
It might be a problem in handling the date format for the column. I would advise using a centralized UTC date column and writing it to your data on the creation of new rows instead of the native “current date/time”.
Also, use that value in the relative date column for the “now” value. I have used it in various apps and it hasn’t failed.
May we see a screenshot of your relative date column configuration and some examples of the data flowing into it? It sounds like there’s a mixup between Imperial and Metric month-day ordering somewhere.
@david this happens with most of the Date related plugins. I’ve stopped using them. They either give inconsistent results or no result at all. As far as I’m aware, they work fine as long as you’re using US locale/date format, but as soon as you aren’t then all bets are off.
Yes, it either fails or gives an incorrect result, depending on whether the date is ambiguous.
For example, 7th December is an ambiguous date. It could be 7/12 or 12/7, depending on where you are. And both could be interpreted as 7th December or 12th July. For these dates, it will “work”, but give an incorrect result if you are using non-US date format.
19th December on the other hand is non-ambiguous. Even though it can be represented as 19/12 or 12/19, it can only be interpreted one way. The date plugins fail for these dates because they appear to assume mm/dd format, and as there is no 19th month…
