[OFBIZ-10152] Use properties for hard-coded date/time strings

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Trunk, Upcoming Branch
• Component/s: ALL COMPONENTS
• Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
• Reporter: Jacques Le Roux
• Created: 09/Jan/18 09:57
• Updated: 11/Jan/22 08:48

Description

This refers to a suggestion from Adrian at http://markmail.org/message/bldm5eajql4in3yg

The current OFBiz framework supports a user-selected locale and time
zone. There are places in the UI where those settings are ignored and
date/time strings are hard-coded to the yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS format.
That was a design decision made by the developer community.

Most of the framework code uses a formatting string constant found in
UtilDateTime.java:

public static final String DATE_TIME_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS";

If you want to change the date/time format, that would be place to do it.

It would be best to have those format strings loaded from a properties
file, so that users like yourself can change it easily - without having
to modify framework code. Anyone wanting to work on that improvement can
submit a patch to Jira and I would be happy to review and commit it.

-Adrian

Issue Links

• is a child of: OFBIZ-10750 Umbrella issue for misc. issues in form widget date-time field
• relates to: OFBIZ-7532 Form Display Field improvement to manage multiple number format