calendar widget doesn't support localization

[Doug Fish]

On the Admin/Overview Panel it appears that the Calendar/Datepicker widget doesn't support localization.

I've verified this both by running the code, as well as inspecting bootstrap-datepicker.js.

[Doug Fish (drfish)]

I don't think this should be a duplicate. I perceive 2 different issues here.

1274144 is a problem that is more contained within horizon: I don't think there is any way to use a locale-specific date in the text field. It's always going to be the ISO format.

1274145 is about the calendar/datepicker that we have attached to the text field. It's always going to show the calendar for choosing dates in English.

[Julie Pichon (jpichon)]

Agreed these are different bugs. My understanding is that this one is about showing "January" etc in the correct locale while the other is about handling the date format.

[Victoria Martinez de la Cruz (vkmc)]

Regarding 1274144, I remember that it was discussed the possibility of allowing the user to add the date format in the local settings configuration file [0]. The only problem with that approach is that bootstrap-datepicker and Python manage dates quite differently... so a mapping would be required.

And about 1274145, that is a tough one because bootstrap-datepicker doesn't support i18n. There is a fork though, that does support it [1]. The problem with it is that it requires jQuery.

[0] https://github.com/openstack/horizon/blob/master/openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.py.example
[1] https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/75752

[Doug Fish (drfish)]

When planning a fix for this bug, there is a closely related issue: the first day of the week is not normally represented as Sunday in all locales. A robust calendar widget should support starting the day on Monday or other locally appropriate choice.

[Julie Pichon (jpichon)]

Patch at https://review.openstack.org/#/c/120242/

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/120242
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/horizon/commit/?id=78c917570e2182bfdd8f5cb7eb5cb2c71d8df6f0
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 78c917570e2182bfdd8f5cb7eb5cb2c71d8df6f0
Author: Randy Bertram <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 9 17:28:17 2014 -0400

    Datepicker locale support

    Also adds general language info to the
    horizon JS object.

    Change-Id: I8fbf20635ac0a2ae1f3b8f618ce5a37eb53e9cc0
    Closes-Bug: 1274145