[Dojo-interest] dojo.date.setIso8601() does not support space date/time separator

[Alex Russell]

Actually, I merged a fix for the "split by space" issue, but the regexp 
may well still be b0rken.

On Thursday 20 April 2006 6:08 pm, Dylan Schiemann wrote:
> This looks like a valid bug.  Can you please file a ticket:
> http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/ , on the post 0.3 release as the
> milestone, 0.2 as the version.  It has a much greater chance of
> someone fixing the issue by seeing it in trac.
>
> Thanks,
> -Dylan
>
> Anonymous Coward wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I see that the dojo.date.setIso8601() function splits the ISO
> > datetime string on a T character. However, ISO8601 also allows a
> > space to be used. So if that is added, Dojo would be able to parse
> > more ISO8601 compliant dates.
> >
> > [00:12] <pokernut> I think there's a big in the function as well.
> > [00:12] <pokernut> I'm trying to use it and it's not parsing it
> > correctly. [00:12] <pokernut> I think the regex in setIso8601Date()
> > is wrong
> >
> > I posted some improvements in the comments of this blog post:
> > http://delete.me.uk/2005/03/iso8601.html afaik, this is what
> > dojo.date was originally based on
> >
> > Additionally:
> >
> > When I do this:
> >
> > var date = new Date(d[1], 0, 1);
> > alert(date);
> > if (d[2]) { date.setUTCMonth(d[2] - 1); }
> > alert(date);
> >
> > I get this (in Firefox):
> >
> > Sun Jan 01 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0100
> > Wed Jun 01 2005 01:00:00 GMT+0200
> >
> > Note that by setting the month, the year changed. This probably
> > depends on the locale, as for someone in the US the year did not
> > change. Looks like by using setUTCMonth, Firefox triggers some kind
> > of UTC representation internally, but re-uses the same data
> > structure for that without converting it to the new representation.
> > Or something.
> >
> >
> > ~Grauw
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