880222 - May month is displayed with dot ("May. 31") in status bar

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia, defect)

Description

[SiPlus]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130511120803

Steps to reproduce:

Looked at the status bar in May.


Actual results:

The month is displayed with dot in the end ("May. 31, Carrier"), even though it's the full name of the month, unlike "Jan.", "Feb.", "Mar."


Expected results:

The month should have been displayed without the dot ("May 31, Carrier"). However, other months should've been displayed with the dot ("Jun. 30, Carrier").

The solution is to change the format of the United States localization of date representation from "%s. %i" to "%s %i" and to add the dot directly to the months' names.

Comment 1

[Anirudh S [:anirudh24seven]]

I am not sure if the fix would be to add the dot directly to the month's names. 

My suggestion would be to remove the dot itself. All months would look consistent and we could save real estate by removing that character.

Comment 2

[Anirudh S [:anirudh24seven]]

Attachment: Proposed patch for suggested fix.

Comment 3

[SiPlus]

Yes, this is okay. 3-letter month names are so common that they don't need a dot.

Comment 4

[Fabien Cazenave [:kaze]]

Comment on attachment 8341135 [details] [diff] [review]
Proposed patch for suggested fix.

Thanks!

Comment 5

[Fabien Cazenave [:kaze]]

Merged on master: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/b4e2f8e060c8cc7385a2986cf1c26616e0058c13

Comment 6

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Anirudh, it'd be great if you could add the bug number to your commit message for your next patch.

I was trying to find this commit, and only got to the bug through kaze's merge commit.

Also, I agree that not changing the ID here is a good idea.

Kaze, would you mind posting a tip to the .l10n group, explaining this change? Other localizations might want to follow suit.

Comment 7

[Anirudh S [:anirudh24seven]]

(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #6)
> Anirudh, it'd be great if you could add the bug number to your commit
> message for your next patch.

Sure. I will do so.