Align various UI string formatting with the OS.

toolkit/components/cookie/content/cookieAcceptDialog.js

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/PrivateBrowsingUtils.jsm");
 
 var params;
 var cookieBundle;
+var gDateService = null;
 
 var showDetails = "";
 var hideDetails = "";
@@ -38,6 +39,14 @@ function onload()
   document.getElementById("cancel").setAttribute("icon", "cancel");
   document.getElementById("disclosureButton").setAttribute("icon", "properties");
 
+  // Initialize the date formatter
+  if (!gDateService) {
+    const nsScriptableDateFormat_CONTRACTID = "@mozilla.org/intl/scriptabledateformat;1";
+    const nsIScriptableDateFormat = Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableDateFormat;
+    gDateService = Components.classes[nsScriptableDateFormat_CONTRACTID]
+                             .getService(nsIScriptableDateFormat);
+  }
+
   cookieBundle = document.getElementById("cookieBundle");
 
   // cache strings
@@ -174,12 +183,21 @@ function cookieDeny()
 function GetExpiresString(secondsUntilExpires) {
   if (secondsUntilExpires) {
     var date = new Date(1000*secondsUntilExpires);
-    const locale = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/chrome/chrome-registry;1"]
-                   .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIXULChromeRegistry)
-                   .getSelectedLocale("global", true);
-    const dtOptions = { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric',
-                        hour: 'numeric', minute: 'numeric', second: 'numeric' };
-    return date.toLocaleString(locale, dtOptions);
+
+    // if a server manages to set a really long-lived cookie, the dateservice
+    // can't cope with it properly, so we'll return a descriptive string instead.
+    var expiry = "";
+    try {
+      expiry = gDateService.FormatDateTime("", gDateService.dateFormatLong,
+                                           gDateService.timeFormatSeconds,
+                                           date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth()+1,
+                                           date.getDate(), date.getHours(),
+                                           date.getMinutes(), date.getSeconds());
+    } catch (ex) {
+      // Expiry duration was out of range for the date formatter, meaning a silly long time.
+      expiry = cookieBundle.getString("expireInAVeryLongTime");
+    }
+    return expiry;
   }
   return cookieBundle.getString("expireAtEndOfSession");
 }

toolkit/locales/en-US/chrome/cookie/cookieAcceptDialog.properties

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ domainColon=Domain:
 forSecureOnly=Encrypted connections only
 forAnyConnection=Any type of connection
 expireAtEndOfSession=At end of session
+#  LOCALIZATION NOTE (expireInAVeryLongTime) This string is used if a cookie won't expire for a literal life age and then some.
+expireInAVeryLongTime=Not in your lifetime
 
 showDetails=Show Details
 hideDetails=Hide Details

toolkit/mozapps/update/content/history.js

@@ -58,13 +58,18 @@ var gUpdateHistory = {
    * @returns A human readable date string
    */
   _formatDate: function(seconds) {
+    var sdf =
+        Components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/scriptabledateformat;1"].
+        getService(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableDateFormat);
     var date = new Date(seconds);
-    const locale = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/chrome/chrome-registry;1"]
-                   .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIXULChromeRegistry)
-                   .getSelectedLocale("global", true);
-    const dtOptions = { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric',
-                        hour: 'numeric', minute: 'numeric', second: 'numeric' };
-    return date.toLocaleString(locale, dtOptions);
+    return sdf.FormatDateTime("", sdf.dateFormatLong,
+                              sdf.timeFormatSeconds,
+                              date.getFullYear(),
+                              date.getMonth() + 1,
+                              date.getDate(),
+                              date.getHours(),
+                              date.getMinutes(),
+                              date.getSeconds());
   }
 };