Date.fromString failed when tried to convert string that was obtained using toString on Date.

[Wildsoft]

Error: Unable to parse '<Sat Jan 14 2017 17:06:24 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)>' as a date. Dates must be in the ISO 8601 format.

The same code worked well on Chrome but failed on Firefox (50.1.0 on Windows 8)

[process-bot]

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[process-bot]

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[Wildsoft]

IE 11 had the same issue

[Wildsoft]

IE 11 had the same issue

[Wildsoft]

Here is a snippet of code that reproduce the issue:
addHistoryEntry : DestParty -> Date -> UserData -> UserData
addHistoryEntry destParty callDate userData =
let
dateStr = (toString callDate)
dateForVal = Date.fromString dateStr
dateStr2 = case dateForVal of
Ok _ -> dateStr
Err err -> "Got:"++ err
............................................................................................

[Wildsoft]

Here is a snippet of code that reproduce the issue:
addHistoryEntry : DestParty -> Date -> UserData -> UserData
addHistoryEntry destParty callDate userData =
let
dateStr = (toString callDate)
dateForVal = Date.fromString dateStr
dateStr2 = case dateForVal of
Ok _ -> dateStr
Err err -> "Got:"++ err
............................................................................................

[jvoigtlaender]

Can you try to properly format your example code in the last comment using a Markdown code block?

[jvoigtlaender]

Can you try to properly format your example code in the last comment using a Markdown code block?

[Wildsoft]

Sure, I have recreate the issue with very small program. Its code is attached:
date_from_string.elm.txt

[Wildsoft]

Sure, I have recreate the issue with very small program. Its code is attached:
date_from_string.elm.txt

[jvoigtlaender]

Look at how your comment (also the new one) looks on GitHub. No formatting, unreadable.

[jvoigtlaender]

Look at how your comment (also the new one) looks on GitHub. No formatting, unreadable.

[Wildsoft]

Can you please look at attached file?

[Wildsoft]

Can you please look at attached file?

[jvoigtlaender]

Please open a new issue, with all relevant information in the first comment, in readable form. Our current conversation here will just make it more complicated to see what the problem is and to act on it.

[jvoigtlaender]

Please open a new issue, with all relevant information in the first comment, in readable form. Our current conversation here will just make it more complicated to see what the problem is and to act on it.

[Wildsoft]

Done

[Wildsoft]

Done

[jvoigtlaender]

@Wildsoft, please do take a look at https://github.com/elm-lang/core/issues/810#issue-200876297. I edited your comment there to put the code right there into it as a Markdown block (instead of a link only). This is how you should present examples like this in an issue if you want to make it easy for the maintainer to work with your issue (which you should want).

[jvoigtlaender]

@Wildsoft, please do take a look at https://github.com/elm-lang/core/issues/810#issue-200876297. I edited your comment there to put the code right there into it as a Markdown block (instead of a link only). This is how you should present examples like this in an issue if you want to make it easy for the maintainer to work with your issue (which you should want).

[Wildsoft]

@jvoigtlaender , sure, thanks for your help and patience

[Wildsoft]

@jvoigtlaender , sure, thanks for your help and patience