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Comment 6 for bug 1062659

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Bertrand Rousseau (bertrand-rousseau) wrote : Re: allow dd-mm-yyyy format for date

Izidor> Yes, indeed. In Belgium, the locale is typically %d/%m/%Y. However, the documentation on quickadd bar says the following:

"Dates can be formatted as yyyy-mm-dd (for example 2012-04-01) "

If we add something like: "The quickadd bar also supports regional format, so you can also give a date in you local form.", which is more or less the only bit of documentation we can give about this (since we obviously cannot provide the locally configured format in the documentation).

I fear that it could create some slight confusion, because I might be tempted, on my computer, to write dd-mm-yyyy, thinking that GTG considers "-" as the separator. Indeed, Internet made me used to consider all sort of separators for dates (even on belgian sites), so it's absolutely not clear for me that I should use "/" instead of "-". Hence my suggestion to interpret the date independently of a particular separator.

Now, it might be technically tricky, because I see no easy way to get the date separator from the locale. Thus, feel free to discard this request if it's too complicated.