1365258 - Calendar Date Text Format incorrect for long dates in pt_BR Thunderbird 45.x and 52.x for Windows

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Tiago Delboni]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.96 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the options window: Ferramentas (Tools) | Opções (Options)
2. Select Calendar's General tab: Calendário (Calendar)| Geral (General)
3. Check the long date option in dropdown Formato de data (Date Text Format)


Actual results:

The long date displays as "Ter às 16 a Mai às 2017".

Tested with:

- Windows 7 + Thunderbird 45.8.0 pt_BR + Lightning 4.7.8
- Windows 7 + Thunderbird 52.1.1 pt_BR + Lightning 5.4.1.1

This affects calendar printing:

1. Switch to the calendar tab
2. Open print preview window: Arquivo (File) | Imprimir... (Print...)
3. Choose layout: select Planejamento semanal (Weekly Planner) in Configurações de impressão (Print Settings) | Layout
4. Notice the incorrect long date format in the headers.


Expected results:

The long date should be displayed as "Terça-feira, 16 de maio de 2017".

This was working on Windows 7/XP with Thunderbird 38.8.0 pt_BR + Lightning 4.0.8.

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Is this a problem with the localization or with the date format? To check, can you see if there is similar behavior in the en-US build? I know there were some date format changes, but I am not quite sure what part of the date is wrong in your example because my Portuguese is not good.

Comment 2

[Tiago Delboni]

Hi Philipp, thanks for replying. 

It was working in TB 38.x, displaying date 2017-05-16 as "Terça-feira, 16 de maio de 2017".

In TB 45.x and 52.x, the same date is displayed as "Ter às 16 a Mai às 2017". The "às" and "a" make no sense - "Ter 16 Mai 2017" would be acceptable. However, the way it was in 38.x, is preferable.

It could be a localization problem. In the en-US version, it's OK.