Closed Bug 1464592 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

LC_TIME ignored for html5 input fields (type=time,date)

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Version:
60 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mozbugs, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 Build ID: 20180518073241 Steps to reproduce: Using Firefox 60.0.1 on archlinux amd64. Using these locale settings: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 Using this html file: <html> <title>html5 input test</title> <form> date <input type="date"><br> time <input type="time"> </form> </html> Actual results: The date field is shown as mm/dd/yyyy and the time field as 12h (as per the $LANG setting). Expected results: The date field should show something like TT.MM.JJJJ (German for dd.mm.yyyy) and the time fields should be in 24h format, as per the $LC_TIME setting; because locale(7) defines that all LC_* settings should override $LANG. To confirm it isn't a missing language pack issue -- using these locale settings: LANG=de_DE.utf8 LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 The fields are shown as they should (TT.MM.JJJJ and 24h)
Setting component as HTML: Form Submission. Please change if this incorrect. I don't have ArchLinux available so I cannot test this at present.
Component: Untriaged → HTML: Form Submission
Product: Firefox → Core
Bug 1370859 comment 1 seems to indicate bug 1366134 is related; you might want to chime in there. Thanks.
Blocks: datetime-bugs
Priority: -- → P3
can you copy&paste the last section in about:support? It contains information about locales and internationalization.
Flags: needinfo?(mozbugs)
Internationalization & Localization ----------------------------------- Application Settings Requested Locales: ["en-US"] Available Locales: ["de","en-US"] App Locales: ["en-US","und"] Regional Preferences: ["en-US","und"] Default Locale: "und" Operating System System Locales: ["en-US"] Regional Preferences: ["de-DE"] For reference, the corresponding environment variables are: ~$ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" LC_TIME=de_DE.utf8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" LC_PAPER=de_DE.utf8 LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL=
Flags: needinfo?(mozbugs)
Ok, thanks! The reason you see this behavior is because we do not match your regional preferences locale to your app locale because languages differ. In short, Firefox will use your LC_TIME only if the language portion of the locale matches your current app locales. This means that if you use en-US Firefox and you'll set your LC_TIME to en-GB, we'll use the GB because `en` match. In your case, you have Firefox in en-US but you want German regional preferences. That would introduce a localization inconsistency with cases such as "Today is Dienstag". We avoid that by not matching those by default. If you want to override this behavior, go to about:config and switch `intl.regional_prefs.use_os_locales` to true.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Component: HTML: Form Submission → DOM: Core & HTML
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