[Bug]: Date format does not follow chosen locale in date picker
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
- 36.9k
- Forks
- 5.2k
- Avg merge
- 2d 3h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 713
Description
⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️
- This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
- This issue is not already reported on Github OR Nextcloud Community Forum (I've searched it).
- Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
- I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.
Bug description
When picking a date, e.g. when sharing a link, the format used does not follow the one in the settings. In my specific case, I have set the locale to United Kingdom (so format DD-MM-YYYY), but the date in the share panel is shown as MM-DD-YYYY. See screenshot below for reference.
Steps to reproduce
- Set locale to United Kingdom.
- Share a file from the Web interface.
Expected behavior
The date shown follows the selected locale.
Nextcloud Server version
29
Operating system
Debian/Ubuntu
PHP engine version
PHP 8.3
Web server
Apache (supported)
Database engine version
MySQL
Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?
None
Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?
None
What user-backends are you using?
- Default user-backend (database)
- LDAP/ Active Directory
- SSO - SAML
- Other
Configuration report
{
"system": {
"passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"trusted_domains": [
"localhost",
"nextcloud.robecchi.eu",
"192.168.178.22"
],
"trusted_proxies": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbtype": "mysql",
"version": "29.0.5.1",
"overwrite.cli.url": "http:\/\/localhost",
"dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbport": "",
"dbtableprefix": "oc_",
"mysql.utf8mb4": true,
"dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"installed": true,
"memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
"redis": {
"host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"port": 0,
"timeout": 0
},
"filelocking.enabled": true,
"memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
"instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"maintenance": false,
"maintenance_window_start": 1,
"theme": "",
"loglevel": 3,
"default_phone_region": "GB",
"mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
"mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
"mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtpsecure": "ssl",
"mail_smtpauthtype": "LOGIN",
"mail_smtpauth": 1,
"mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtpport": "465",
"mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"twofactor_enforced": "true",
"twofactor_enforced_groups": [],
"twofactor_enforced_excluded_groups": [
"SOS"
],
"app_install_overwrite": [
"whiteboard"
]
}
}
List of activated Apps
Enabled:
- activity: 2.21.1
- bruteforcesettings: 2.9.0
- calendar: 4.7.15
- cloud_federation_api: 1.12.0
- comments: 1.19.0
- contacts: 6.0.0
- contactsinteraction: 1.10.0
- dashboard: 7.9.0
- dav: 1.30.1
- federatedfilesharing: 1.19.0
- files: 2.1.1
- files_downloadlimit: 2.0.0
- files_pdfviewer: 2.10.0
- files_reminders: 1.2.0
- files_sharing: 1.21.0
- files_trashbin: 1.19.0
- files_versions: 1.22.0
- firstrunwizard: 2.18.0
- groupfolders: 17.0.2
- logreader: 2.14.0
- lookup_server_connector: 1.17.0
- nextcloud_announcements: 1.18.0
- notes: 4.10.1
- notifications: 2.17.0
- oauth2: 1.17.0
- password_policy: 1.19.0
- photos: 2.5.0
- provisioning_api: 1.19.0
- qownnotesapi: 24.4.0
- recommendations: 2.1.0
- related_resources: 1.4.0
- serverinfo: 1.19.0
- settings: 1.12.0
- sharebymail: 1.19.0
- survey_client: 1.17.0
- suspicious_login: 7.0.0
- tasks: 0.16.1
- text: 3.10.1
- theming: 2.4.0
- twofactor_backupcodes: 1.18.0
- twofactor_nextcloud_notification: 3.9.0
- twofactor_totp: 11.0.0-dev
- updatenotification: 1.19.1
- viewer: 2.3.0
- workflowengine: 2.11.0
Disabled:
- admin_audit: 1.19.0
- calendar.bak: 2.3.3
- circles: 29.0.0-dev (installed 23.1.1)
- encryption: 2.17.0
- federation: 1.19.0 (installed 1.13.0)
- files_external: 1.21.0
- files_rightclick: 0.15.1 (installed 1.6.0)
- mail: 3.7.7 (installed 3.7.7)
- metadata: 0.20.0 (installed 0.20.0)
- privacy: 1.13.0 (installed 1.7.0)
- support: 1.12.0 (installed 1.6.0)
- systemtags: 1.19.0 (installed 1.13.0)
- user_ldap: 1.20.0
- user_status: 1.9.0 (installed 1.3.1)
- weather_status: 1.9.0 (installed 1.3.0)
- whiteboard: 0.0.3 (installed 0.0.3)
Nextcloud Signing status
No errors have been found.
Nextcloud Logs
No response
Additional info
No response
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the date picker in the share panel through the Web interface with the locale set to United Kingdom, comparing the displayed format with the expected DD-MM-YYYY order. Identify the date-picker entry point used by that panel and verify the behavior with a locale-focused test; done means the displayed date follows the selected locale.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, localization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100