[Loris-dev] Date format

[David MacFarlane, Mr]

Hi Normand,


Where are you referring to exactly? For data entry, LORIS generally uses an HTML5 "date" input type. For internationalization reasons, the HTML date input type's visual display is dependent on the user's locale, so that users consistently see dates in the format that makes sense to them throughout the internet while having a defined way of sending the date to the server for processing. As a result, LORIS should consistently use the date format for the locale of the user's web browser/operating system for display.


I just tried changing my computer's settings from Canada to Iran, and the format of the date displayed changed as expected. (I assume, I'm not familiar enough with Iranian culture to know how they format dates over there, but it was different..)


So:

  1.  If the display of dates isn't being shown in accordance with your operating system preferences, it's probably a bug in your web browser* and you should file a bug with them.
  2.  If your operating system locale is correct, but you're not seeing dates in the format that's standard for that region of the world, that's probably a bug in your operating system or web browser. (Though it seems unlikely to me that a bug like this would be discovered by using LORIS.. OS/web browser companies have a lot of global users who would catch things like this pretty quickly.)
  3.  If there's somewhere in LORIS displaying dates in a way that's inconsistent with other places in LORIS, that's a bug to report to us that we should fix. (I verified on the "New Profile" page, so you can see how it's displayed there for the expected format for your locale.)
  4.  If you want to change how you see dates, you should probably change your operating system preferences. (As a bonus, this should affect how you see dates everywhere on the internet to be your preferred format.) If that doesn't affect how you see dates in LORIS after restarting your browser, it's probably a bug in your web browser*.


 * Unless your web browser is Firefox, which doesn't support HTML date elements and LORIS uses a jQuery shim. Unfortunately, it's not customizable. Hopefully one day Firefox will add support date for elements, we can remove the shim and this will be a moot point.

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From: loris-dev-bounces at bic.mni.mcgill.ca <loris-dev-bounces at bic.mni.mcgill.ca> on behalf of Normand Côté <ncote at aviscuriosa.com>
Sent: August 29, 2017 10:02:48 PM
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Subject: [Loris-dev] Date format

Is there a mechanism for changing the date format throughout Loris?  We need to accept (and display) dates in this format: DD-MMM-YYYY e.g. 01-Jun-2016.
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