WebV: incorrect date format display for some dates
- Article Type: General
- Product: Voyager
- Product Version: 8.1.0
Problem Symptoms:
* In webvoyage.properties, have commented out MM-dd-yyyy date format and enabled dd-MM-yyyy date format.
* In WebVoyage, when a date is displayed, it sometimes follows the enabled format, and sometimes follows the format that was commented out; pattern suggests when the month begins with 1 (10, 11, 12) rather than 0 (09, 04, etc), the month displays incorrectly.
Cause:
This behavior is the result of a software defect.
Resolution:
Defect was resolved by other defect fixes after 8.1.0 and by the release of 8.2.2 (fix for VYG-239 / Issue 16384-16194 which resolved similar issue in vxws.properties in 8.1.2 may have resolved this issue).
Additional Information
Workaround
date.format.* values in vxws.properties conform to java format; setting the month value to display alphabetic abbreviation rather than numeric will display correctly and be less confusing to patrons:
date.format.short=dd-MMM-yyyy
date.format.long=dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm:ss
See also Article #11844, "date.format in vxws.properties doesn't alter format in some services"
Category: Opac
- Article last edited: 11/20/2013