rich:calendar and Seam produce unsual problem

[terryb]

I have a xhtml record search page with date field using rich:calendar as in code below. typing date say 01-01-1990 and searching/lising records displays several pages of results; when I click page navigation buttons eg, "next page" the value in rich:calendar field gets reduced by one day (eg, 31-12-1989) - causing search to produce wrong results.

anyone knows if this is a bug; bcos I don't see anything special in my code which may be causing it. the date field is directly mapped to entity property.


Seam 2.0.1GA and Richfaces 3.2.0.GA

 <h:outputLabel for="dateOfBirthRichPanel">Date of birth</h:outputLabel>
 <h:panelGrid id="dateOfBirthPanel" columns="3" rowClasses="calendar-row" columnClasses="ecol1, ecol2">
 <a4j:outputPanel id="dateOfBirthRichPanel" layout="block">
 <rich:calendar value="#{clientList.contact.dateOfBirth}"
 popup="true" datePattern="dd-MM-yyyy" enableManualInput="true" id="dateOfBirth"/>
 </a4j:outputPanel>
 </h:panelGrid>

[ilya_shaikovsky]

could you please share full war example with us?

[terryb]

I think this may be related to timezone issue? though I am not sure how to fix it.

If I change rich:Calendar datePattern="dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm" and select a date from the calendar it shows dates as eg, "01-04-1990 12:00". I thought it should show time as 00:00 since hour format is HH.

Now once I commit the xhtml page and page is refreshed the date time changes to ""01-04-1990 08:00".

I have tried putting timeZone="#{timeZone}" in rich:calendar tag; but it didn't change anything.

[terryb]

If I have rich:calendar with datePattern="dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm a"; and select a date from the calendar it shows "01-04-2008 12:00 PM".

Is this right? shouldn't it be AM?

[sergeysmirnov]

if time is not specified, it points right in the middle of the day, but not in the beginning. I.e. the noon (12:00PM)

[terryb]

Sergey, for my understanding. why is it done this way? when databases, eg SQL Server insert midnight for time if only date is inserted.

[supernovasoftware.com]

I would prefer the midnight setting.

If I search by date>=the date selected it must be set to midnight or half the day will not show up.

[terryb]

I certainly agree it should be midnight. It will be good to know whether it is intentional, and so why? or if it is some oversight and may be resolved in coming release?

Furthermore, I still haven't worked out why after my page is committed and refreshed the date in calendar field changes to one day earlier. I do nothing no conversions of manipulation in my xhtml page or backing bean.

[nbelaevski]

Hello,

We've created RFC for that: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-3105

[jgilbert]

i am seeing the same "minus one day" behavior. another interesting thing is that if i refresh the page i get the right date back.

has anyone figured out how to make this work or do i need to switch back to my old trusty calendar script.

[jgilbert]

Here is something interesting.

I have been getting my pattern from a message bundle like this.

datePattern="#{msg.DatePattern}"

When I switch to this, which is the same value in the bundle, then it works.

datePattern="MM/dd/yyyy"