Desktop: Use relative time in note list for today and yesterday

packages/app-mobile/root.tsx

@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ import initializeCommandService from './utils/initializeCommandService';
 import PlatformImplementation from './plugins/PlatformImplementation';
 import ShareManager from './components/screens/ShareManager';
 import appDefaultState, { DEFAULT_ROUTE } from './utils/appDefaultState';
+import { setDateFormat, setTimeFormat, setTimeLocale } from '@joplin/utils/time';
 
 type SideMenuPosition = 'left' | 'right';
 
@@ -186,10 +187,13 @@ const generalMiddleware = (store: any) => (next: any) => async (action: any) =>
 	if ((action.type === 'SETTING_UPDATE_ONE' && (action.key === 'dateFormat' || action.key === 'timeFormat')) || (action.type === 'SETTING_UPDATE_ALL')) {
 		time.setDateFormat(Setting.value('dateFormat'));
 		time.setTimeFormat(Setting.value('timeFormat'));
+		setDateFormat(Setting.value('dateFormat'));
+		setTimeFormat(Setting.value('timeFormat'));
 	}
 
 	if (action.type === 'SETTING_UPDATE_ONE' && action.key === 'locale' || action.type === 'SETTING_UPDATE_ALL') {
 		setLocale(Setting.value('locale'));
+		setTimeLocale(Setting.value('locale'));
 	}
 
 	if ((action.type === 'SETTING_UPDATE_ONE' && (action.key.indexOf('encryption.') === 0)) || (action.type === 'SETTING_UPDATE_ALL')) {

packages/lib/BaseApplication.ts

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import BaseItem from './models/BaseItem';
 import Note from './models/Note';
 import Tag from './models/Tag';
 import { splitCommandString } from '@joplin/utils';
+import { setDateFormat, setTimeFormat, setTimeLocale } from '@joplin/utils/time';
 import { reg } from './registry';
 import time from './time';
 import BaseSyncTarget from './BaseSyncTarget';
@@ -357,6 +358,9 @@ export default class BaseApplication {
 		const sideEffects: any = {
 			'dateFormat': async () => {
 				time.setLocale(Setting.value('locale'));
+				setTimeLocale(Setting.value('locale'));
+				setDateFormat(Setting.value('dateFormat'));
+				setTimeFormat(Setting.value('timeFormat'));
 				time.setDateFormat(Setting.value('dateFormat'));
 				time.setTimeFormat(Setting.value('timeFormat'));
 			},

packages/lib/services/noteList/renderViewProps.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import Logger from '@joplin/utils/Logger';
 import time from '../../time';
+import { formatMsToRelative } from '@joplin/utils/time';
 import { TagEntity } from '../database/types';
 import { ListRendererDependency, RenderNoteView } from '../plugins/api/noteListType';
 
@@ -15,10 +16,10 @@ export interface RenderViewPropsOptions {
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any -- Old code before rule was applied
 const renderViewProp = (name: ListRendererDependency, value: any, options: RenderViewPropsOptions): string => {
 	const renderers: Partial<Record<ListRendererDependency, ()=> string>> = {
-		'note.user_updated_time': () => time.formatMsToLocal(value),
-		'note.user_created_time': () => time.formatMsToLocal(value),
-		'note.updated_time': () => time.formatMsToLocal(value),
-		'note.created_time': () => time.formatMsToLocal(value),
+		'note.user_updated_time': () => formatMsToRelative(value),
+		'note.user_created_time': () => formatMsToRelative(value),
+		'note.updated_time': () => formatMsToRelative(value),
+		'note.created_time': () => formatMsToRelative(value),
 		'note.todo_completed': () => value ? time.formatMsToLocal(value) : '',
 		'note.todo_due': () => value ? time.formatMsToLocal(value) : '',
 		'note.tags': () => value ? value.map((t: TagEntity) => t.title).join(', ') : '',

packages/lib/time.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// !!IMPORTANT!! New time-related code should be added to @joplin/util/time and should be based on
+// `dayjs` (which is part of `@joplin/util`). Eventually we'll migrate all code here to
+// `@joplin/utils/time`.
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 import shim from './shim';
 const moment = require('moment');
 

packages/utils/package.json

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@joplin/fork-htmlparser2": "^4.1.51",
     "async-mutex": "0.4.1",
+    "dayjs": "1.11.11",
     "execa": "5.1.1",
     "fs-extra": "11.2.0",
     "glob": "10.3.10",

packages/utils/time.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,55 @@
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// NOTE: Some of the code in here is copied from @joplin/lib/time. New time-related code should be
+// added here, and should be based on dayjs (not moment)
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+import dayjs = require('dayjs');
+import dayJsRelativeTime = require('dayjs/plugin/relativeTime');
+
+const supportedLocales: Record<string, unknown> = {
+	'ar': require('dayjs/locale/ar'),
+	'bg': require('dayjs/locale/bg'),
+	'bs': require('dayjs/locale/bs'),
+	'ca': require('dayjs/locale/ca'),
+	'cs': require('dayjs/locale/cs'),
+	'da': require('dayjs/locale/da'),
+	'de': require('dayjs/locale/de'),
+	'el': require('dayjs/locale/el'),
+	'en-gb': require('dayjs/locale/en-gb'),
+	'en': require('dayjs/locale/en'),
+	'eo': require('dayjs/locale/eo'),
+	'es': require('dayjs/locale/es'),
+	'et': require('dayjs/locale/et'),
+	'eu': require('dayjs/locale/eu'),
+	'fa': require('dayjs/locale/fa'),
+	'fi': require('dayjs/locale/fi'),
+	'fr': require('dayjs/locale/fr'),
+	'gl': require('dayjs/locale/gl'),
+	'hr': require('dayjs/locale/hr'),
+	'hu': require('dayjs/locale/hu'),
+	'id': require('dayjs/locale/id'),
+	'it': require('dayjs/locale/it'),
+	'ja': require('dayjs/locale/ja'),
+	'ko': require('dayjs/locale/ko'),
+	'nb': require('dayjs/locale/nb'),
+	'nl-be': require('dayjs/locale/nl-be'),
+	'nl': require('dayjs/locale/nl'),
+	'pl': require('dayjs/locale/pl'),
+	'pt-br': require('dayjs/locale/pt-br'),
+	'pt': require('dayjs/locale/pt'),
+	'ro': require('dayjs/locale/ro'),
+	'ru': require('dayjs/locale/ru'),
+	'sl': require('dayjs/locale/sl'),
+	'sr': require('dayjs/locale/sr'),
+	'sv': require('dayjs/locale/sv'),
+	'th': require('dayjs/locale/th'),
+	'tr': require('dayjs/locale/tr'),
+	'uk': require('dayjs/locale/uk'),
+	'vi': require('dayjs/locale/vi'),
+	'zh-cn': require('dayjs/locale/zh-cn'),
+	'zh-tw': require('dayjs/locale/zh-tw'),
+};
+
 export const Second = 1000;
 export const Minute = 60 * Second;
 export const Hour = 60 * Minute;
@@ -5,6 +57,15 @@ export const Day = 24 * Hour;
 export const Week = 7 * Day;
 export const Month = 30 * Day;
 
+function initDayJs() {
+	dayjs.extend(dayJsRelativeTime);
+}
+
+initDayJs();
+
+let dateFormat_ = 'DD/MM/YYYY';
+let timeFormat_ = 'HH:mm';
+
 export const msleep = (ms: number) => {
 	return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
 };
@@ -27,3 +88,48 @@ export function timerPop() {
 	// eslint-disable-next-line no-console
 	console.info(`Time: ${t.name}: ${Date.now() - t.startTime}`);
 }
+
+export const formatMsToRelative = (ms: number) => {
+	if (Date.now() - ms > 2 * Day) return formatMsToLocal(ms);
+	return dayjs(ms).fromNow(false);
+};
+
+const joplinLocaleToDayJsLocale = (locale: string) => {
+	locale = locale.toLowerCase().replace(/_/, '-');
+	if (supportedLocales[locale]) return locale;
+
+	const lang = locale.split('-')[0];
+	if (supportedLocales[lang]) return lang;
+
+	return 'en-gb';
+};
+
+export const setTimeLocale = (locale: string) => {
+	const dayJsLocale = joplinLocaleToDayJsLocale(locale);
+	dayjs.locale(dayJsLocale);
+};
+
+export const setDateFormat = (format: string) => {
+	dateFormat_ = format;
+};
+
+export const setTimeFormat = (format: string) => {
+	timeFormat_ = format;
+};
+
+const dateFormat = () => {
+	return dateFormat_;
+};
+
+const timeFormat = () => {
+	return timeFormat_;
+};
+
+const dateTimeFormat = () => {
+	return `${dateFormat()} ${timeFormat()}`;
+};
+
+export const formatMsToLocal = (ms: number, format: string|null = null) => {
+	if (format === null) format = dateTimeFormat();
+	return dayjs(ms).format(format);
+};

yarn.lock

@@ -7240,6 +7240,7 @@ __metadata:
     "@types/markdown-it": 13.0.7
     "@types/node-fetch": 2.6.11
     async-mutex: 0.4.1
+    dayjs: 1.11.11
     execa: 5.1.1
     fs-extra: 11.2.0
     glob: 10.3.10
@@ -18327,6 +18328,13 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
+"dayjs@npm:1.11.11":
+  version: 1.11.11
+  resolution: "dayjs@npm:1.11.11"
+  checksum: 84788275aad8a87fee4f1ce4be08861df29687aae6b7b43dd65350118a37dda56772a3902f802cb2dc651dfed447a5a8df62d88f0fb900dba8333e411190a5d5
+  languageName: node
+  linkType: hard
+
 "dayjs@npm:^1.11.7":
   version: 1.11.9
   resolution: "dayjs@npm:1.11.9"