WebUI: Fix misinterpretation of the date picker #4184

[dchristidis]

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[mlassnig]

this is .... o.O

[bziemons]

seems suspicious to me since date -> str functions in JavaScript are locale-controlled and this might be switched in FR/EN
sure about this change?

[mlassnig]

On my default Firefox (US), it creates this for December 7:

https://rucio-ui.cern.ch:443/proxy/replicas/suspicious/?rse_expression=tier=1&younger_than=2020-07-12T00:00:00&nattempts=10

If I change my browser language and locale to DE, it creates 2020-07-12 still.

Use "$.datepicker.setDefaults( $.datepicker.regional[ "ISO_8601" ] );" instead

[mlassnig]

This forces the locale for the datepicker, regardless what the browser wants. See here: https://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/#method-option

[bziemons]

it will return the date as 2020-12-24 though, so split by - instead of /, see https://jqueryui.com/datepicker/#date-formats

Edit: split is not needed anymore instead, which is even better

[bari12]

Ping, what's the status here?

[dchristidis]

I’ll come back to this after things calm down. :D

[bari12]

Another ping 🛎️ 😄

[dchristidis]

Replaced with #4556 (patch instead of feature).