[Bug 1349650] [NEW] Deadline warnings should use international date format.

[Tudor Holton]

Public bug reported:

I just had this message appear on my server:

Your current Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is going out of support
on 07/08/14.  After this date security updates for critical parts (kernel
and graphics stack) of your system will no longer be available.

Being as I'm in a country that uses MM/DD/YY, I read this as July 8 (in
the past) and was about to submit a bug report regarding the upgrade
from 12.04 to 14.04 being unavailable (because do-release-upgrade
(without -d) is still unaware of stable 14.04 at this time).  Then I
read the associated wiki, and realised that this deadline is actually in
the future.

Can we please always list deadline warnings in the unambiguous YYYY-MM-
DD format, please?  Or break out the month into letters so it's clearer.

Thanks.

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Deadline warnings should use international date format.

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I just had this message appear on my server:

  Your current Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is going out of support
  on 07/08/14.  After this date security updates for critical parts (kernel
  and graphics stack) of your system will no longer be available.

  Being as I'm in a country that uses MM/DD/YY, I read this as July 8
  (in the past) and was about to submit a bug report regarding the
  upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 being unavailable (because do-release-
  upgrade (without -d) is still unaware of stable 14.04 at this time).
  Then I read the associated wiki, and realised that this deadline is
  actually in the future.

  Can we please always list deadline warnings in the unambiguous YYYY-
  MM-DD format, please?  Or break out the month into letters so it's
  clearer.

  Thanks.

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