1150382 - It is not clear which date format should be used with the "Add announcement" feature in the l10n dashboard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1083914

(support.mozilla.org :: Localization, task)

Description

[Underpass]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150326190726

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to the Italian l10n dashboard https://support.mozilla.org/it/localization

2. Try to write a sticky announcement with the "Add announcement" feature: sometimes the date is in the gg.mm.aaaa format, sometimes it is in the gg/mm/aaaa format, sometimes in the aaaa-mm-gg format).


Actual results:

If I wish to add an announcement and set the date using the gg.mm.aaaa or gg/mm/aaaa formats, I get the "incorrect date" error. Sometimes (but not always) if I use aaaa-mm-gg format, the date is correctly set and the operation ends successfully.


Expected results:

The ideal solution should be the possibility to choose the day/month/year using a graphic calendar. If it is not possible, please give us the possibility to set the date using the locale default format (e.g. for Italian it should be gg/mm/aaaa).

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

I have just seen this problem with Russian at https://support.mozilla.org/ru/localization right now; the pre-inserted "incorrect" date is 11.06.2015 (DD.MM.YYYY, which is Russian).  Changing it to 2015-06-11 worked.

Comment 2

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

I would assume the locale format is explained there and respects the locale date format.

Or Michal, you are using this feature a lot. What behavior would you expect?

Comment 3

[vesper]

I usually pick a date in the picker and edit as necessary.

I would expect we would stick to the 'military' (or 'global') date format YYYY-MM-DD wherever possible, since it's easier to figure out when archiving/reviewing anything.

Comment 4

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

Attachment: GitHub PR

Comment 5

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

I didn't noticed this has been requested before the date picker was added.