1579971 - Time zone format for Chinese is out of order

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Localization, defect)

Description

[r8rsfans00075]

What did you do?

Using Intl.DateTimeFormat, wrote this line:
console.log(new Intl.DateTimeFormat('zh-SG', {dateStyle: 'full', timeZoneName: 'short', timeStyle: 'long'}).format(new Date()));

What happened?

got this output:
"2019年9月9日星期一 GMT-5 下午2:13:40"

What should have happened?

according to Chinese formatting, the time zone info should be at the end:
"2019年9月9日星期 下午2:13:40 一 GMT-5"

Is there anything else we should know?

Comment 1

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

Which URL on MDN are you referring to?

Comment 2

[r8rsfans00075]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/DateTimeFormat

Comment 3

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

Ok. So it's not really a "bug" in the code but a flaw in the content. Does that make sense?
MDN is an open wiki that is made possible by everyone helping each other. If you have found a flaw in the documentation you can make that edit yourself. All you need is a GitHub account and then click to edit the page.

By the way, I see no mention of zh-SG anywhere on that page.

Comment 4

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

I'm not sure if this is a problem with the documentation. Possibly it is more likely to be a problem with the implementation in browsers?

When I run console.log(new Intl.DateTimeFormat('zh-SG', {dateStyle: 'full', timeZoneName: 'short', timeStyle: 'long'}).format(new Date())); in Firefox, I get

2019年9月17日 GMT+1

When I run it in Chrome, I get

2019年9月17日星期二 GMT+1 上午9:04:55

Are both of these wrong? If so, we should file bugs against the browsers themselves. Well, I could change this bug over to the relevant JavaScript component, but you'd need to go and file a new bug against Chromium.

Comment 5

[André Bargull [:anba]]

dateStyle and timeStyle options aren't implemented → bug 1557718.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

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