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[Phil Duby <752007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Got that new VM created.

Works just fine:

Ubuntu 11.10 and FF 9.0.1 with latest updates
$echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
$ echo $LANGUAGE
## blank ##

VERY strong indication that the problem is related to locale information.  en_CA fails, en_US works.
Anyone have an idea about what 'package' this really belongs with?  I could put it under one of the javascript packages instead of firefox, but it really belongs to a lower level.  I just do not know which underlying library toLocaleDateString belongs to or calls.  I add javascript and locales.

Sigh ... Something ELSE that should be in my web application cross
browser / cross OS internationalization testing, but is just too big to
be reasonable.

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Title:
  javascript toLocaleDateString output format YY-MM-YYYY

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “javascript-common” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “langpack-locales” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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