[REVIEW 3-6][REVIEW 3-6-0] fdo#52240 add uncontroversial date acceptance patterns

[Eike Rathke]

Hi Petr,

On Friday, 2012-07-27 11:21:43 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:

> Eike Rathke píše v Čt 26. 07. 2012 v 12:23 +0200:
> > On Thursday, 2012-07-26 09:52:14 +0200, David Tardon wrote:
> > > > that enable abbreviated date input for locales that use '/' date
> > > > separator, which, contrary to '.' and '-', are uncontroversial
> > > 
> > > Hm, are they? What if I want to insert a fraction? Or am I missing
> > > something (very probable)?
> > 
> > For fraction input you need an integer part as well,
> > so "1 2/3" or "0 23/42".
> 
> I am not sure if this is intuitive, so it is slightly controversal as
> well => we should not risk it for rc4.

Hum? The fraction input did not change, that was always the case. An
input of "23/42" never yielded a numeric value. The change enables
abbreviated (only month and day, e.g. 27/7) date input for those locales
again, where currently one has to enter a complete date, e.g. 27/7/2012

  Eike

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