297924 - Date format on this page are not in localized (Danish) format but in US format

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Danish, defect)

Description

[Knud Berggreen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da-DK; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da-DK; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Date format in Firefox: 06/15/2005
Date format in IE: 15-06-2005 (This is the correct Danish format)
It has not allways being so. It was changed for about 14 days ago.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just open the URL

Actual Results:  
All dates in the row "Dato" are in US date format

Expected Results:  
All dates in the row "Dato" should be in Danish date format

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050616
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005061605

IE6

The date format renders correctly (as coded) in both Firefox and IE, the page
source clearly shows dates of the format 06/15/2005 for the Dato line and thus
this is what renders in both of them.

This looks like a website issue to me.

-> Invaid?

Comment 2

[Patrick]

the page code shows me 
<font face="Verdana">06/16/2005</font>
nothing fancy there, and nothing to render. That wouldn't make it INVALID, just
a Tech Evang issue.

However Safari shows the same "wrong" date format as does IE 5.2 for Mac.

Can this be a fluke or a difference in "locale" pref? 

Comment 3

[Knud Berggreen]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da-DK; rv:1.7.8)
Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da-DK; rv:1.7.8)
Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
> 
> Date format in Firefox: 06/15/2005
> Date format in IE: 15-06-2005 (This is the correct Danish format)
> It has not allways being so. It was changed for about 14 days ago.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Just open the URL
> 
> Actual Results:  
> All dates in the row "Dato" are in US date format
> 
> Expected Results:  
> All dates in the row "Dato" should be in Danish date format

(In reply to comment #2)
> the page code shows me 
> <font face="Verdana">06/16/2005</font>
> nothing fancy there, and nothing to render. That wouldn't make it INVALID, just
> a Tech Evang issue.
> 
> However Safari shows the same "wrong" date format as does IE 5.2 for Mac.
> 
> Can this be a fluke or a difference in "locale" pref? 

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050616
> Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005061605
> 
> IE6
> 
> The date format renders correctly (as coded) in both Firefox and IE, the page
> source clearly shows dates of the format 06/15/2005 for the Dato line and thus
> this is what renders in both of them.
> 
> This looks like a website issue to me.
> 

If it was e website issue then would both Firefox and IE show wrong date format.
Only Firefox show the wrong format but IE shows it right.

Comment 4

[Patrick]

(In reply to comment #3)
> If it was e website issue then would both Firefox and IE show wrong date format.
> Only Firefox show the wrong format but IE shows it right.

Not 100% necessary, browser sniff, date insertion on the server side based on
that or whatever.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Knud Berggreen]

I have still the same problem with this site:
http://www.nationalbanken.dk/dndk/valuta.nsf/side/Valutakurser!OpenDocument

This is 5 pages but it still only print the first page when I press the button
"Printvenlig" = "printer-friendly"

You can also choose the english version (select English from the menu). It is
just the same problem. Only the first page are printed.

If I use my "View print" function it also only show that there is a single page.

The date-format are also shown as mm/dd/yyyy but it should be dd-mm-yyyy as it
does in Internet Explorer.

Comment 7

[Jo Hermans]

This is not a Firefox bug - the dates are formatted by the webserver :

<tr valign="top"><td width="112">Dato</td><td width="38"><font face="Verdana">ISO kode</font></td><td width="76"><div align="right"><font face="Verdana">11/07/2005</font></div></td><td width="76"><div align="right"><font face="Verdana">11/04/2005</font></div></td><td width="76"><div align="right"><font face="Verdana">11/03/2005</font></div></td><td width="76"><div align="right"><font face="Verdana">11/02/2005</font></div></td><td width="76"><div align="right"><font face="Verdana">11/01/2005</font></div></td></tr>

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

-> INVALID, the date text is generated server side. 

It seems it guesses your date format from your language settings though. Go to Options > Advanced > General > Languages and set your preferred language(s) in correct order. That does it for me.