263329 - Sunbird Doesnt Understand ISO-8601 Date Format

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, defect)

Description

[Moe Aboulkheir]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

ISO 8601 ( YYYY-MM-DD ) is not understood by calendar, specifically dateUtils.js

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open up sunbird
2. open the eventDisplay.xul thingie
3. enter an ISO8601 date

Actual Results:  
the year was interpreted as the number of months i think

Expected Results:  
displayed the format according to the current locale's default date representation

Comment 1

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Ccing our dateUtils expert

Comment 2

[gekacheka]

The date parser expects the dates to be in the same format they are displayed.
I assume yours are not displayed in YYYY-MM-DD format.

In windows you can set your date format preference (settings | control panel |
regional options | date).  I'm not sure if linux has caught up so you can change
the date format independently, I think the date format may be hardwired to the
locale.

Comment 3

[gekacheka]

I was mistaken, you can set the time locale, such as LC_TIME="sv_SE"
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/dark-mozilla-faq.html
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How do I change the date-format in Mail ?

Mozilla will use what your locale is set to. To list it, write “locale” in an
xterm. The particular environment variable deciding date format is LC_TIME. If
"LC_TIME="en_US" is set, MailNews will show the American syntax of
Month/Day/Year. If you want the british Day/Month/Year, add this to your .bashrc
(provided you use bash as your login shell)

export LC_TIME="en_GB"

Or, if you want to do it strictly correct and are in Norway (where the same date
format is used)

export LC_TIME="no_NO"

The next time you start Mozilla where the new variable is set, dates in MailNews
will display accordingly. To list all available locale variables: locale -a

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This thread suggests setting LC_TIME="sv_SE" for YYYY-MM-DD
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104236&highlight=kde+date+format

Does this work for you?

Comment 4

[Richard Greenwood]

If you speak english, you may want to use en_DK instead of sv_SE. The date
format is the same, but the month and day strings are in english.

Comment 5

[Joey Minta]

Moe,
    It's helpful to keep these bug reports current.  Can you please report
whether or not gekacheka's suggestion was successful in solving your problem?

Comment 6

[Joey Minta]

No response from reporter.  gekacheka's suggestion about setting the env var for date format should be adequate. -> WFM.