Validation Error for March ( März ) Date Picker in German " Umlaute " Environment
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Symptoms
March is called März in German but the date picker creates 12/Mrz/2015 and JIRA doesn't recognize "Mrz" abbreviation.
Environment
Jira Data Center
Steps to Reproduce
- Go to General Configuration
- Change Indexing Language to German
- Change Default Language to Deutsch (Deutschland)
- Change Default user time zone to Europe and Timezone to (GMT+01:00) Berlin
- Change any date picker field (e. g Due Date) to any date in March (e.g 4/Mrz/15 10:25 PM)
Errors Produced
duedate: Sie haben kein gültiges Datum eingegeben. Geben Sie das Datum im Format 'd/MMM/yy' ein (z. B. '16/Dez/14').duedate: You did not enter a valid date. Please type the date in the format 'd / MMM / yy' (for. & Nbsp; B '1Cause
This issue has been confirmed a bug: JRASERVER-64849 - JIRA doesn't recognize "Mrz" abbreviation for March in German in Server
Workaround
Change the date format from 20/Mrz/15 to 20.03.15 with the below setting in Advanced Settings:
jira.date.picker.java.format=d.MM.yy
jira.date.picker.javascript.format=%d.%m.%y
jira.date.time.picker.java.format=d.MM.yy H:mm
jira.date.time.picker.javascript.format=%d.%m.%y %H:%M