713807 - Contact Record - Birthday Field - Incorrect Data display with system short date format set to dd-mmm-yy

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Pritam Dutt Gautam]

Attachment: New Contact and Existing Contact Birthday field screenshots.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7

Steps to reproduce:

My Regional Settings are configure for English(India) with Short Date Format Set to dd-MMM-yyyy. This results in a Short Month name being displayed as part of the date. 


Actual results:

Whenever I create a new contact, the Birthday field displays "-Oct-" for reason. (Please see attachment)
Whenever I try to open a contact record with already defined Birthday.. the DD and MM part are separated by "-Oct-", creating a confusion. (Please see attachment)


Expected results:

The Contact record should have followed the System Configuration and displayed 21-Feb instead of 21-Oct-02 as displayed in the attachment.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Pritam Dutt Gautam from comment #0)
Just to test; can you change your regional settings of Windows to the default value and then check Thunderbird?

Comment 2

[Pritam Dutt Gautam]

Hi,

When set to normal of dd-mm-yy which is numeric in nature no problem is observed.

The problem only occurs when the format is changed to include a string is introduced by setting the format to dd-mmm-yy.

Comment 3

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Pritam Dutt Gautam from comment #2)
With that description, I think this is a valid bug.

Comment 5

[Pritam Dutt Gautam]

This may be duplicate of bug # 534466, but is still an issue. Unless it it resolved, how can it be marked as resolved/fixed? as is the case with 534466. The reason for opening new bug request was the fact that bug # 534466 has already been marked as resolved.

Hope someone will look into this.

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Anything in Tools -> Error console when this happens ?

Does it happens also when you start Thunderbird in safe-mode (ie without extensions) ?

Comment 7

[Pritam Dutt Gautam]

Yes it happens even in vanilla installation without extensions. I have tested this problem exists in Windows 7 and Windows XP for sure..

Also, I don't see anything in Error Console.