Bug 177460 - More detailed information
After running the Ubuntu live CD on a spare PC, the default birthday field
format is mm/dd/yyyy, so no problem here.
Following the graphical installation route, which a novice user might take, I
did the following:-
Request: 'Where are you?'
Repsonse: City - London, Selected Region - UK.
Request: Keyboard
Response: UK selected
Request: Prepare disk space (manual option)
/dev/sda1 swap 789MB
/dev/sda2 ext3 / 7863MB (format)
/dev/sda3 ext3 /home 11367MB (format)
Request: Who are you?
Response: Personal details entered
Proceed with installation.
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Post (default) installation to hard disk:-
Graphical user login.
Click Evolution mail icon on top menu bar.
would
Using Evolution setup assistant I entered personal information.
Request: Timezone
Response: Europe/London
Proceed to contact manager and create a new address book entry.
Select the personal information tab and go to birthday field.
The date field format is now showing as dd/mm/yy. (only two digits for the
year)
Attempting to enter the date as 29/03/1941 invokes on screen message, 'invalid
date value'
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Clicked on icon at top right of upper menu bar and installed 148 new
patches/updates.
Exit via red icon at right of upper menu bar.
Machine rebooted.
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Graphical user login.
Proceed to contact manager and create a new address book entry.
Select the personal information tab and go to birthday field.
The date field format is now showing as dd/mm/yy. (only two digits for the
year)
Attempting to enter the date as 29/03/1941 invokes on screen message, 'invalid
date value'
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I wonder if there's an easy way that my Mum, who knows nothing about
computers, could use to enter a four digit year?
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End of report.
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Invalid date value
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177460
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