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There is more info on this posted in this Zotero Forum:

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21431?page=1#Item_18

Basically, if you put in a date as a string like "July, 2 2010" with the
command [code]var d = new Date("July 2, 2010")[/code], the method
[code]d.toLocaleDateString()[/code] gives the output "10-07-2010".

Dan at zotero wrote the code:
""
<pre id="output"></pre>
<script>
var str = "";

var d = new Date("July 2, 2010");

str += "Date is " + d + "\n\n";
str += "toLocaleString: " + d.toLocaleString() + "\n";
str += "toLocaleDateString: " + d.toLocaleDateString() + "\n";

document.getElementById('output').appendChild(document.createTextNode(str));
</script>
""

which produces an output of
""
Date is Fri Jul 02 2010 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (PDT)

toLocaleString: Fri 02 Jul 2010 12:00:00 AM PDT
toLocaleDateString: 10-07-2010
""

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Title:
  javascript toLocaleDateString output format YY-MM-YYYY

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx
  package: firefox : Firefox 3.6.16
  Locale: Lang en_CA
  echo $LANG en_CA.utf8
  echo $LANGUAGE en_CA:en_GB:en_IE: ...
  no overrides in /etc/environment
  A sample javascript generated calendar was displaying all of the day numbers as '11'.  Some testing with a range of dates shows that the toLocaleDateString() method is showing all dates in YY-MM-YYYY format. Other date formating methods: toDateStriing, toLocaleString, toUTCString give correct results.
  *probably* this is a problem with the default locale settings, but I do not know how to find out what 'package' that is, or how to use an alternate path (outside firefox) to verify that.  All of the other ubuntu date text that I can 'see' are correct, but [from formatting] appear to be using one of the other locale specific methods and formats

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