324535 - Allow the use of relative dates in charts

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Douglas Calvert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Relative dates do not work in charts. If you enter in the following values for the date:
Range: "7d" to "Now"

Bugzilla reports " '7d' is not a legal date."

This is with  Bugzilla  Version 2.21.1  

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

It would be nice if somebody could confirm this on the current tip and track down the cause.

dfc: I trust you mean that they don't work in fields where they normally work, for searches? Because we know that they don't work otherwise--they're a Search-specific feature.

If you want the Charts to support relative dates everywhere, that would be an enhancement.

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

Bugzilla::Chart::init() expects "absolute" dates:

    foreach my $date ('datefrom', 'dateto') {
        if ($self->{$date}) {
            $self->{$date} = str2time($self->{$date}) 
              || ThrowUserError("illegal_date", { date => $self->{$date}});
        }
    }

So this bug is now a request to allow relative dates to be specified.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I just tried to file this bug and it pointed me at this one.  Wow, an 11 year old feature request. :-)

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Grr, I hit Enter somewhere I shouldn't have and it submitted before I was ready.

But yeah, my use case here is I want a chart that shows me the last 90 or 180 days of tracking on a set of queries, and want to be able to bookmark it to repeatly use it in the future without having to go adjust the dates every time.

Comment 5

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Attachment: GitHub Pull Request

Comment 6

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

The PR goes to BMO first then shipping as part of Bugzilla 6.0.

Comment 7

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Merged to master.