Default date and time format in v4

[indigoram89]

Package

Panel builder

Package Version

v4

How can we help you?

Hello! In v3 I used global date and time formatting like this:

Table::configureUsing(fn (Table $table) => $table->defaultTimeDisplayFormat('H:i'));
Table::configureUsing(fn (Table $table) => $table->defaultDateTimeDisplayFormat('M j, Y H:i'));

Also I used values of these properties in my own helper functions:

Table::$defaultTimeDisplayFormat;
Table::$defaultDateTimeDisplayFormat;
Table::$defaultDateDisplayFormat;

The same for Infolists.

But in v4 it does not work. How can we configure default date and time formatting now?

Thank you!

[Rettorio]

Instead of define the default formatting why don't mutate the format ?
parse the datetime and format them whatever u want...

[danielh-official]

This is either a bug caused by forgotten code or a misunderstanding of the feature. I looked at the docs, and I don't really see any mention of this, so I'm leaning toward the former.

[LukasJK]

It was a thing in v3 #7699 (comment)

It was actually fairly helpful thing - I'd set-and-forget my formats to be jS M y H:i for the tables and would never have to worry again.

[Kovah]

Quite a bummer that the properties were made protected and there's no static method to receive the default date/time formats.
However, within a table or schema context, you may replace

public function table(Table $table): Table
{
    return $table->columns([
        IconColumn::make('featured_at')
            ->tooltip(fn($state) => $state?->format(Table::$defaultDateDisplayFormat)),
    ]);
}

with

public function table(Table $table): Table
{
    return $table->columns([
        IconColumn::make('featured_at')
            ->tooltip(fn($state) => $state?->format($table->getDefaultDateDisplayFormat())),
    ]);
}

[indigoram89]

Yes, but doing this in dozens or even hundreds of places is completely inconvenient.

[mohammadms2008]

you can do this:
Table::configureUsing(function (Table $table): void {
$table
->defaultTimeDisplayFormat('H:i)
->defaultDateTimeDisplayFormat('M j, Y H:i');
});

[D-Jordy]

you can do this inside a panel provider or in the app service provider

  ->bootUsing(function () {
                Table::configureUsing(fn(Table $table) => $table
                    ->defaultCurrency('eur')
                    ->defaultDateDisplayFormat('d-m-Y')
                    ->defaultDateTimeDisplayFormat('d-m-Y H:i')
                    ->paginationPageOptions([25, 50, 100, 'all']));
                    ....