Calendar Date format

[Alessandro Molina]

While fixing an issue with resources management in Calendar pickers in tw2.forms I realized that they use two different date formats.

As you can see for my commit:

https://github.com/toscawidgets/tw2.forms/commit/22d7cd9de1b9a3dd87c19c70b65f6f4407aef71e

The DatePicker was using US style dates, while the DateTime picker was using the international one. My proposted change moved both to the international format, to provide a coherent format that should be readable for every country.

Doing this I noticed that is wasn't possible to use the tw2.core validator for DateTime together with the DateTimePicker, because the validator expects the US format, while the picker provided the international one. After my change both the DateTimePicker and the DatePicker provide the international one, so it would probably be the case to also update the tw2.core validators to work on the international format by default.

This will change application behaviour for people that didn't provide a custom format, but it is probably the way to go because before:

- Date and DateTime had two different behaviours 

- it was broken when mixing DateTimePicker with DateTimeValidator

- It was meaningful only for US and caused %d/%m VS %m/%d confusion for europeans

What do you think?

[Craig Small]

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 06:15:47PM +0200, Alessandro Molina wrote:
> While fixing an issue with resources management in Calendar pickers in
> tw2.forms I realized that they use two different date formats.

[...]
> What do you think?
http://xkcd.com/1179/

- Craig
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[Paul Johnston]

Sounds sensible to me, I doubt many (or any) will notice the compatibility breakage.

Paul

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[Alessandro Molina]

Is there anyone in charge of tw2 release management? I think it might make sense to roll out tw2.core and tw2.forms releases as since the last release there have been 4-5 bug fixes including this one.

Bests,

Alessandro