Launchpad itself

polls dont have an example for date format

Bug #176943 reported by Fernando Miguel
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

the date format used is MM/DD/YYYY, but it doesnt say anything anywhere.
Users from different locales will try different formats like DD/MM/YYYY or even YY-MM-dd

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Adi Roiban (adiroiban) wrote :

I think this bug should have greater importance.

In my case it cause a series of unfortunate events:
not knowing the time format I have added a start day in the past and a could not add any option to the poll, neither could I delete it. So I have created an invalid poll.

Also specifing the input format , near the text box is a great usability improvment and it should not require to much effort.

Revision history for this message
Nathan Handler (nhandler) wrote :

An example of the correct date/time format would be nice. However, I think the correct solution would be a tiny pop-up that displays a calendar to choose the date, and some tiny text boxes to choose the hour/minute/second of the time. Once the user enters the information, it would be converted to the correct format and entered in the text box on the poll creation page.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
affects: launchpad-foundations → launchpad-registry
Changed in launchpad-registry:
importance: Medium → Low
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: team-voting
Brad Crittenden (bac)
tags: added: bugjam2010
Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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