Bug 3467 - RFE: inconsistent use of date formats in bugzilla screens (nit-picking category :)
Summary: RFE: inconsistent use of date formats in bugzilla screens (nit-picking catego...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Bugzilla
Classification: Community
Component: Bugzilla General
Version: 2.1rC
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
QA Contact:
URL: http://pobox.com/~e.maryniak/
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-06-14 21:05 UTC by Eric Maryniak
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-08-04 18:41:17 UTC
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Description Eric Maryniak 1999-06-14 21:05:54 UTC
This one really falls in the nit-picking category, and
I would have given it ultra-low priority if possible---
but being a fan of the ISO 8601 date format (CCYY-MM-DD,
eg. 1999-06-14), I could not help but notice the
inconsistent use of date formats in the several Bugzilla
screens, eg:
...
                                       Opened: 1999-05-03
...
------- Additional Comments ... 05/03/99 11:01 -------
...

Note that the first date seems OK, but is probably not,
ccyy-dd-mm in lieu of ccyy-mm-dd and the second does not
have cc (century). Furthermore, both dates are specific for
the US; Europe mostly uses dd-mm-ccyy notation. ISO 8601
has all sorts of nice qualities, such as millenium-
proofness, numerical and lexical ordering == date ordering
etc. Also note that in 2001 etc. dates will look strange,
what to bake of '02/03/01' etc., whereas 2001-02-03 is
clearer.
You may want to check the ISO 8601 date standard at:

    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

Comment 1 David Lawrence 2000-08-04 18:41:15 UTC
Good point. Changed to enhancement request.

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-06-04 19:02:27 UTC
I think the date format is more consistent now.


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