Ubuntu
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Certificate date format ambiguous and should be in ISO 8601

Bug #791822 reported by Lars Noodén
10
This bug affects 2 people
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firefox (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

The date format used in the Certificate dialog is ambiguous and confusing. Another, unambiguous format should be used so that which part is the day and which part is the year are clear. For example. 08/05/2010 could be May 8th or August 5th depending on the interpretation. Better to have it spelled out 05 Aug 2010 or 08 May 2010 or even better, use the international standard ISO 8601 for the date: 2010-05-08

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
http://www.iso.org/iso/support/faqs/faqs_widely_used_standards/widely_used_standards_other/date_and_time_format.htm

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Lars Noodén (larsnooden) wrote :
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Lars Noodén (larsnooden) wrote :

Sorry, this is not a Unity bug, but a Firefox bug

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Lars Noodén (larsnooden) wrote :

not a unity bug

affects: unity (Ubuntu) → firefox (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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