Pop-up calendar doesn't like 'M' formatter? [#286357]

I'm creating a date field with a pop-up calendar and I'm attempting to use the format 'j M Y' (which looks like "23 Jul 2008"). However, the jQuery pop-up calendar does not seem to respect the 'M' part of that. If I have the field set to today as the default value, upon clicking on the field, the calendar appears, but… well, check out the screen shot. Upon clicking on Today, the dates for the current month appear and the widget works as normal; however, the text that appears in the text field has a format like "23 07 2008" (the month appears as a padded int). When the form is submitted, however, it reports that such a date is invalid.

This is happening in both Webkit and Gecko. I'm on PHP 4, if that matters (my company's D-list web host still hasn't upgraded). I tried both beta 3 and the dev release as of the time of this posting; no difference.

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Comment #1

Garrett Albright CreditAttribution: Garrett Albright commented 23 July 2008 at 17:36

If it's helpful, here's the code I'm using to create the form element. Please don't mind the weird way I'm storing the #default_value -- there's a method to that madness, really.

	$format = variable_get('chamber_news_date_format', 'j M Y');
		
	$form = array(
		…
		'ed_date' => array(
			'#type' => module_exists('date_popup') ? 'date_popup' : 'date_select',
			'#title' => t('Edition date'),
			'#default_value' => format_date(
				count($node->taxonomy) ? array_shift(explode(':', $node->taxonomy[0]['name'])) : time(),
				'custom',
				$format
			),
			'#date_format' => $format,
			'#required' => TRUE,
		),
		…

Comment #2

KarenS CreditAttribution: KarenS commented 23 July 2008 at 19:19

Status:

Active

» Fixed

The jcalendar widget can't use that format. It uses only a very small set of formats, like Y-m-d, m/d/Y, d.m.Y. I don't have any control over that, that's the way it works. If you select a format in the UI you'll see that you're limited to those formats and aren't allowed to create a custom format for it.