Re: date field bug

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 18:50 -0700, Ryan Paul wrote:
> I just tested Glom 1.0 in Ubuntu Dapper. So far, it seems to be working
> relatively well, except for a problem with date fields.
>
> Glom transposes the month and day of date fields. When I type "April 15
> 2006" into a date field, it becomes 15/04/2006.

When exactly does it "become 15/04/2006". Are you, for instance,
pressing Enter, or clicking away from the field?

I didn't even know that it could recognise such a freeform date.
However, I can't reproduce the effect.

For me, when I enter "April 15 2006" in the Date Of Birth field in the
contact details, then click into a different field, or press Enter, the
field shows 04/16/2006 (Note that you seem to have the British format
instead). When I click around some more, I can't get that error dialog.

Not that may LANG is:
murrayc ubuntumurrayc:~$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

As soon as we can reliably and exactly reproduce this problem, we can
fix it.

>  When I click the field
> and then click outside of it without actually changing the value, I get
> the following error message:
>
> "Invalid format
>
> The data in the field was not recognized. Please try to correct the data
> or revert to the previous value. Here is an example of
> correctly-formatted data for this field.
>
> 31/01/2005"
>
> When I changed the day value from 15 to 12 and then clicked outside of
> the field, it changed the formatting so that the date showed up as:
> 04/12/2006. After changing the value once, clicking inside of the field
> and then out of it without changing it causes the month and day values
> to switch positions rather than displaying the error message.

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