function to convert timestamp to locale time string

[janvda]

The function $fromMillis() can be used to convert a time to a string but it doesn't take the locale settings into account. (I know that it is possible to specify a timezone as parameter but due to daylight saving time you will need to adapt this timezone twice a year).

It would be interesting to have functions that converts a time/date to a locale time/date string like the javascript Date methods:

1. toLocaleDateString()
2. toLocaleTimeString()
3. toLocaleString()

[loganvolkers]

You might be interested in jsonata-moment. You could also add your own. If those functions are popular, maybe they would be merged into the core language spec and included across the different implementations of JSONata

[ScottG489]

Thought I'd mention I just came across this problem!

[Adrian-Grimm]

@andrew-coleman & @mattbaileyuk: what would you think of this approach to solve this issue?

• it's just a POC : Adrian-Grimm@ef10183

The idea is to take the current timezone param and rename it to "offset", by keeping the offset value/logic like it was - and add a new timezone param which could dynamicly ajust the time to the valid tzdata(IANA) based timezone (summer/winter time and all further strange cases included..).
All of this by don't have any breaking code changes - only for documentation ...

Targets: $now() and $fromMillis()

If it's OK, I could clean it up and provide a pull for it.