Date of Birth time field on resume not translatable

[Andrew Nicols]

In artefact/resume/index.php the following is defined for the format of the dateofbirth:
'ifFormat' => '%Y/%m/%d'

Ideally, we need to convert thing to a get_string('strfYMD', 'langconfig') etc with appropriate name.
Not sure whether this has any consequences, though I think pieforms should handle these.

Any thoughts?

[Andrew Nicols (dobedobedoh)]

I'm putting the target to 1.4.1 for the moment as it is a bug which makes life harder for users of other languages

[Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield)]

Andrew, I'm not sure whether it'll just work, you'll have to try it and see if you need to do a bit of messing around with strptime like on the view access page, which uses get_string('strftimedatetimeshort'). Might not be a big deal with the date of birth because you never need to compare times, it's just making sure the input format is converted to the db format accurately.

[Melissa Draper (melissa)]

There are also further notes on this at https://reviews.mahara.org/#change,729

[Melissa Draper (melissa)]

I've spent most of today arguing with this issue and trying to find a way to do this change in a pointrelease-friendly way.

My best suggestion is to change it to a date type field rather than calendar type.

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Well, maybe it's not important enough for a point release.

As far as I can tell, it's not a regression. While it's certainly a pain point for lots of users, it's not any worse than previous versions of Mahara. We should fix it properly in 1.5.

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/729
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/52504d9580583204642c0ec39fa9e4a7060a8f02
Submitter: Francois Marier (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 52504d9580583204642c0ec39fa9e4a7060a8f02
Author: Melissa Draper <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Sep 22 17:18:34 2011 +1200

    Make DoB configurable via get_string (bug #824638)

    Add get_string support for the DoB field and descriptions. The
    strings are strfdateofbirth for the date, and dateofbirthformatguide
    for the description.

    Change-Id: I2a5eb8cc7c17bff3a4298bc9776a7439fc4bd1f7
    Signed-off-by: Melissa Draper <email address hidden>