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Bug 1053679
Opened 10 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
use ISO 8601 dates in SSL cert dialog
Categories
(Firefox :: Security, defect)
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(Reporter: pabs3, Unassigned)
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(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
Please use https://xkcd.com/1179/ dates in the date display in the SSL certificate display dialog, in these UI elements:
General tab, under Period of Validity:
Begins On
Expires on
Details tab, under Validity:
Not Before
Not After
What you have now is the most confusing thing I ever saw.
Blocks: 1029832
Updated•10 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: please use https://xkcd.com/1179/ dates in SSL cert dialog → use ISO 8601 dates in SSL cert dialog
(In reply to Paul Wise from comment #0)
> Please use https://xkcd.com/1179/ dates
https://xkcd.com/927/
The problem with ISO8601 dates for this dialog is that they are only unambiguous if you *know* that they are ISO8601 dates, which is not the case in UI (and since ISO8601 is different from every conventional date format that I know of, we can't even rely on people guessing correctly by accident).
I think a much better solution is to spell out the month name: see bug 443811. Or display both.
I'd be happy with locale-specific long dates, RFC822 or ISO8601/RFC3339 dates for user-visible dates. Anything else is probably not a good idea.
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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