bugzilla has a calender to set the last reconfirmed date, which is moderately useful (reconfirming a bug last confirmed in 2008 needs scrolling a year or five in steps of a month). A 'now' button would be great (obviously insert the current date and time).Alternatively, the calender could default to 'now' instead of to the original date.
yes the calendar widget is useless currently
Adding Frédéric Buclin
You are free to type the date yourself instead of using the calendar if you already know the exact date. The calendar is more helpful to people who remember dates such as "that was Tuesday last week", or "the first Friday of last month, during our triage meeting", etc...
(In reply to comment #3) > You are free to type the date yourself instead of using the calendar usually I need a calender to find the date of today ... ;-) That's why I was suggesting to either have the calendar open by default on 'today' (which is usually quite close to what one can remember) or, have literally a second button next to it, to insert 'now'.
(In reply to comment #3) > You are free to type the date yourself instead of using the calendar if you > already know the exact date. The calendar is more helpful to people who > remember dates such as "that was Tuesday last week", or "the first Friday of > last month, during our triage meeting", etc... If the last reconfirmed date was three years ago, it's still annoying to slowly scroll through every month from three years ago to "that Tuesday last week" Does anyone reconfirm GCC bugs like that anyway? I try the testcase and either want to confirm it "now" or not change it.
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #3) > > You are free to type the date yourself instead of using the calendar if you > > already know the exact date. The calendar is more helpful to people who > > remember dates such as "that was Tuesday last week", or "the first Friday of > > last month, during our triage meeting", etc... > > If the last reconfirmed date was three years ago, it's still annoying to slowly > scroll through every month from three years ago to "that Tuesday last week" > > Does anyone reconfirm GCC bugs like that anyway? > I try the testcase and either want to confirm it "now" or not change it. Right I want to confirm it to today (now) too.
What I could do is to hide the calendar button and add a "Now" link instead. I'm not sure that having both the calendar button and a "Now" link would be nice from a UX point of view. And if almost nobody needs to go several days or months in the past, the calendar button is pretty useless anyway. The calendar always selects the currently set date because that's how it works (its code is external to Bugzilla; it comes directly from Yahoo! YUI code).
ISTR old bugzilla had a reconfirm-now-like style. As long as one would be able to eventually re-set the reconfirmed date back if it was changed in error the default should be to reconfirm "now".
(In reply to comment #7) > What I could do is to hide the calendar button and add a "Now" link instead. I think this would be really appreciated.
Frederic, are you still looking into this one ? I still believe this would be progress.
I added a "Now" link.
Works fine. Fixed!