1355565 - pref mail.ui.display.dateformat.default ignores system date format

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1344594

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[K Chayka]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0 SeaMonkey/2.52a1
Build ID: 20170404003723

Steps to reproduce:

1. System short date format set to yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm (24hour clock)
2. Set mail.ui.display.dateformat.default pref value to 2
3. View mail-news



Actual results:

The date column in the thread pane is formatted: m/d/yy, h:mm AM/PM


Expected results:

Per http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format date in the thread pane should follow system settings.

This used to work but has been broken for some months now.

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Probably DUP of "Bug 1344594 - System date and time formats are not respected (all platforms) from TB 54 and later".

@reporter:
What do you think?

Comment 2

[K Chayka]

Bug 1351427 is addressing the larger localized date/time format issue, which manifests itself in the mail-news threadpane. So this bug 1355565 is not needed.

Comment 3

[Rainer Bielefeld]

REPRODUCIBLE with unzipped installer of official en-US SeaMonkey 2.52a1 (NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0 Build 20170406002917  (Default Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit. Also see Bug 1344594 comment #8, Bug 1344594 comment #9

Due to Bug 1344594 comment #14 we should keep this one open to track fix integration to SeaMonkey.

Comment 4

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

You can manage the SM bugs all you like, but I'd dupe this to bug 1344594 right now.

Comment 6

[K Chayka]

Maybe I shouldn't have duped this after all ;) Is there a schedule for porting the bug 1344594 fix to all Seamonkey platforms? Linux builds are nightly or nearly so, but Win and Mac builds are not so frequent. I'm anxious for a new Win build, myself.