#601588 email-reminder: Yearly event date format confusing

Package:
email-reminder
Source:
email-reminder
Description:
Send event reminders by email
Submitter:
"George B."
Date:
2010-10-31 09:12:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#601588#5
Date:
2010-10-27 16:41:30 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

The yearly event date format is confusing - if I enter 05-04 then there is no way to tell if this is 04-May or 05-Apr (in fact the program stores the date in US format MM-DD).

Entering "05 Apr" will change the date to "2010-04-05" but I'm not sure the annual notifications will work after that?

It will be better if the date is shown as DD-MMM, or MMM-DD (or even better if there would be an option to choose the format).


Thanks,

George.

#601588#10
Date:
2010-10-31 09:08:49 UTC
From:
To:
You're right, these dates with a missing year are a bit of a hack.

I could probably do a quick partial fix that would display the date as
"DD-MMM" (since they are stored as two fields: month and day).

However, I'm not sure what to do about the user input format. Right now, if
I detect 4 digits with a dash in the middle, I just treat it as MM-DD and
otherwise pass the whole string to the full date parser (which adds the
current year automatically).

Cheers,
Francois