[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBSEAM-623) <s:selectDate> localization

@Stephan: I had to work on it, since I had to release something today and the (internal) customer did not accept dates in the mdy with / format and instead of hardcoding it I thought: "lets contribute".

btw, Isn't it possible to ask the short format for the local within Java and use that as the default format (unless a dateconverter is specified) I did not look at it yesterday since I had to little time.

Besides that, I was thinking of adding some shortcuts since it is almost impossible to use this selectDate to select a birthday (try selecting 02-12-1971 (dmy) you keep clicking...... any thoughts?

otoh, the datepicker from icefaces is even worse... all that ajax to select a date..... yuck.... They definately have to improve that component.

<s:selectDate> localization --------------------------- Key: JBSEAM-623 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-623 Project: JBoss Seam Issue Type: Patch Components: JSF Affects Versions: 1.1.0.GA Reporter: Stephan Bublava Assigned To: Norman Richards Priority: Minor Fix For: 1.1.1.GA Attachments: adding-local-to-selectdate-display.txt, selectDate-dateFormat-patch.txt, selectdate-localization-patch-2.txt, selectdate-localization-patch.txt Currently <s:selectDate> is not locale-aware. This affects day names, month names, buttons as well as the date string written to the text field via JavaScript. selectdate-localization-patch.txt is a first step to improve this. Changes include: - Weekends use a distinct CSS style and can be highlighted if desired. (I've changed the booking example to demonstrate this). - The first day of the week is no longer harcoded to Sunday, but calculated according to the current locale settings (e.g. Monday for German). - Day and month names are localised as well. Open issues: - Weekends are hardcoded to Saturday and Sunday. I have no idea how determine this info using Calendar, &c. APIs. - Date formats are not kept in sync between JSF and JavaScript, which always uses MM/DD/YYYY, regardless of the locale. - Button names ("close", "this month") are still hardcoded. - It might be more flexible, to translate day / month names with the application ResourceBundle instead of using DateFormatSymbols.