Bug 47098 – "account expiration date" tooltip uses wrong date format

Bug 47098 - "account expiration date" tooltip uses wrong date format


Summary:	"account expiration date" tooltip uses wrong date format

Status:	NEW

Product:	UCS
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	UMC - Users
Version:	UCS 5.0
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	P5 normal (vote)
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Assigned To:	UMC maintainers
QA Contact:	UMC maintainers

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Reported:	2018-05-29 09:13 CEST by Moritz Bunkus
Modified:	2021-05-03 21:43 CEST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Moritz Bunkus 2018-05-29 09:13:05 CEST

Created attachment 9543 [details]
Screenshot of English tooltip showing wrong date format

The tooltip for the "account expiration date" states that dates must be entered in the format "day.month.year". However, the UMC seems to parse and format the dates depending on the language the UMC is currently using:

* For "Deutsch", the German-style date format "dd.mm.yyyy" is used.
* For "English", US-style date format "mm/dd/yyyy" is used.
* For "English (United Kingdom)", UK-style date format "dd.mm.yyyy" is used.

So if the current UI language "English", and the user follows the tooltip and enters e.g. "31.08.2018", the UI will use US-style date format and interpret this as month = 31, day = 08, year = 2018, leading to an error.

The date format in the tooltip should reflect the date format used by the UI.

See https://help.univention.com/t/account-expiration-date-format-bug-ucs-4-3-erata-89/8870

Comment 1 Michael Grandjean

2018-05-29 14:52:01 CEST

Just my 2 cents: Let's use ISO 8601 date format everywhere and for all languages and tooltips.