Human-readable dates in admin dashboard

amanuensis/server/helpers.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Standard library imports
+from datetime import datetime
 from functools import wraps
 
 # Third party imports
@@ -12,12 +13,21 @@ from amanuensis.user import UserModel
 
 def register_custom_filters(app):
 	"""Adds custom filters to the Flask app"""
+
 	@app.template_filter("user_attr")
-	def user_attr(uid, attr):
+	def get_user_attr(uid, attr):
 		user = UserModel.by(uid=uid)
 		val = getattr(user, attr)
 		return val
 
+	@app.template_filter("asdate")
+	def timestamp_to_readable(ts, formatstr="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"):
+		if ts is None:
+			return "null"
+		dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(ts)
+		return dt.strftime(formatstr)
+
+
 def lexicon_param(route):
 	"""Wrapper for loading a route's lexicon"""
 	@wraps(route)

amanuensis/templates/macros.html

@@ -13,7 +13,11 @@
 
 {% macro dashboard_user_item(user) %}
 <div class="dashboard-lexicon-item">
-	<p><b>{{ user.username }}</b> {% if user.username != user.displayname %} / {{ user.displayname }}{% endif %} ({{user.uid}})</p>
+	<p>
-	<p>Last activity: {{ user.last_activity }} &mdash; Last login: {{ user.last_login }}</p>
+		<b>{{ user.username }}</b>
+		{% if user.username != user.displayname %} / {{ user.displayname }}{% endif %}
+		({{user.uid}})
+	</p>
+	<p>Last activity: {{ user.last_activity|asdate }} &mdash; Last login: {{ user.last_login|asdate }}</p>
 </div>
 {% endmacro %}