178064 - Mozilla should use ISO8601-compliant dates

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 140814

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021031
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021031

Mozilla sometimes use the non-standard MM/DD/YY format (very confusing in some
countries). It should use the ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DD.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a web page, e.g. http://www.mozilla.org/
2. Select "View Page Info"
Actual Results:  
The "Modified" and "Expires" fields give the date in the MM/DD/YY format.

Expected Results:  
They should give the date in the ISO 8601 format.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Trying to reproduce with a current trunk CVS, Linux, and LC_TIME="no_NO":

The date appears as 02-11-2002. Assuming that means the second of November, it
reflects the common date format for my country; DD-MM-YYYY.

Your suggested YYYY-MM-DD would be unfamiliar for me and harder to read.
I recommend resolving this bug as invalid. Please export a locale that supports
the ISO 8601 format, if you wish that to be the format Mozilla uses.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

if you have no locale set at all: possibly dup of bug 140814

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We should be using the current locale, period.  If you don't like the date
format in your current locale, you have bigger problems than just Mozilla...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140814 ***