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    Ability to Just Show Year for Release Date?

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      kixut
      last edited by

      It's an old topic but for info it's also possible in WebtroPie, clicking on the column also sorts by that column 0_1523904962846_year.png

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        sub_atomic @mitu
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        @mitu I tried this today, and even though my gamelist.xml has:

        <releasedate>1999</releasedate>
        

        instead of the standard:

        <releasedate>19990101T000000</releasedate>
        

        it still displays in ES as 01/01/1999, not 1999.

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          EctoOne
          last edited by EctoOne

          A solution would be to enable <alignment> for the <datetime> element. Then we could (at least in a theme) do something link this:

          	<datetime name="md_releasedate">
          		<alignment>right</alignment>
          		<size>0.4 0.08</size>
          	</datetime>
          

          If the width is set properly then, it will cut of the month/day in front of the year. If no month/day is available for whatever reason, it won't mess up the design because the text is aligned to the right.
          Maybe @jdrassa can tell us if adding this would be possible. And while I'm at it, I would also love to see <origin> added to <datetime> as well.

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            paffley
            last edited by

            @EctoOne that is a brilliant idea with the 'alignment' ...thumbs up

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              EctoOne
              last edited by

              I just tried to add alignment to the datetime element, but sadly it doesn't work without bigger changes (which I can't do).
              The size of the element is determined by the content, so it won't cut off the date like other text elements do.
              On the other hand, I submitted a pull request to finally add <origin> support to the datetime element. Something that I was missing for a long time.

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                jdrassa @EctoOne
                last edited by

                @ectoone your PR motivated me to finally implement a revamped datetime component.

                With this change datetime will now support all of the same options as text. In addition there will be 2 additional options displayRelative and format. displayRelative lets you choose between rendering the data vs. a relative string (ex: 5 days ago).format will allow for specifying the format of the date time (ex: <format>%Y</format> would render just the year). I will be submitting it in the next couple of days, but wanted to post here and get some feedback.

                Branch:
                https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/tree/date-time

                Docs:
                https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/blob/date-time/THEMES.md#datetime

                Windows build:
                https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jrassa/emulationstation/builds/19485339/job/01krqi9flrxtbw93/artifacts

                Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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                  EctoOne @jdrassa
                  last edited by EctoOne

                  @jdrassa Awesome. I was trying to add some more changes but I still don't understand how to use github and compile stuff. It seems that the test script from @meleu is outdated because whenever I build something with it, I got errors when I tried to run the version.
                  I then changed the original script to install ES from my fork but then I ended up with a bunch of commits which I wasn't able to figure out how to squash into one. Running RetroPie in a VM and doing the coding on my laptop wasn't a great idea too.

                  I will check out your build ASAP.

                  Edit:
                  Looks good to me. One thing that doesn't worked and broke the theme was using the <text> tag, which Is in your doc but the debug window says unsupported. I can't see any use for it anyways so you just have to remove it from the docs I guess.

                  I also have only tested it with md_releasedate and not md_lastplayed because I have my gamelists locked, so I don't have that info.

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                    foxtochop
                    last edited by

                    I also wanted to just show the release year (without the month and day).
                    This is the first thread that comes up by searching on google.
                    I solved it:
                    Add

                    <format>%Y</format>
                    

                    to the datetime element in the theme you are using.

                    For example, mine is looking like this:

                    <datetime name="md_releasedate">
                    <format>%Y</format>
                    <pos>X.xxxxxxx X.xxxxxxxx</pos>
                    
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                      DreamcastKid Banned @foxtochop
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                      @foxtochop
                      Excellent ! just tried it and it does indeed work .. Thanks very much :)

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                        jakong008 @jdrassa
                        last edited by

                        @jdrassa As far as my research goes with the github documentation and this thread, datetime can only be displayed in integers. Are there any workarounds to make us able to display a month to its string representation? Any leads and help are much appreciated.

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