JavaScript, dealing with locale and hour cycle
Published
in JavaScript
on Sep 10, 2021
Finding current language locale and hour cycle (12 or 24 hours) from the client browser can be tricky in JavaScript, but it is possible...
To get current language locale you have to use:
let locale = new Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().locale
And to get whether the language locale uses 12/24 hours you need to do:
let hourCycle = Intl.DateTimeFormat(locale, { hour: 'numeric' }).resolvedOptions().hourCycle
and hourCycle
will return either "h11"
, "h12"
, "h23"
or "h24"
.