dropdowndatepicker can't handle other date formats

[guest]

I have a <div dojoType="dropdowndatepicker" inputName="mydate" date="04/25/1969" dateformat="%d/%m/%Y"> in my webpage, but first of all if I don't specify the date in the US format it shows up incorrect. But even when I do format it (the date parameter) in US format, and it initially shows up correct (being %d/%m/%Y format), whenever I change the date to for example 24/04/1969, and press the icon, the show calendar jumps to a completely different date in december 1970.

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This bug is caused by the DropdownDatePicker? get the date string regardless the format.

Attached t1008.patch:

the patch to address this problem, applies to DropdownDatePicker?.js revision 5022;

attached test_dddp.html:

test case for this patch, please put it in trunk/tests/

The core function of this patch is fromFormatedString(string, format), it will construct a Data object based upon the string and format. Currently, support %m, %d, %Y, -- that is good enough for this widget. I would like to merge this functionality into dojo.date if required.

[liucougar]

did anyone actually commit your patch?

if not, please reopen this bug

[Eugene Lazutkin]

It looks like it was incorrectly closed. I am reopening it.

[Adam Peller]

Formatting is probably best separated from the widget module. I'm actually (yes, finally :) working on this in dojo.i18n.datetime, and hope to have it ready soon, like in a week or two. You may assign this to me, if you like.

[Adam Peller]

Use dojo.date.format/dojo.date.parse to render and accept dates from the input widget in various formats

[Adam Peller]

new tests for localization

[Adam Peller]

(In [5637]) DropdownDatePicker? handling of locale-based formatting and parsing of dates (fixes #1008, fixes #821) Use locale-independent serialization for dddp in a form (fixes #721) Removed experimental from dojo.date.parse (fixes #835)

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Milestone 0.4 deleted