Incorrect date formatting

[xavivars]

On the "teams" sites, dates are not correctly formatted (see attachment).

It seems escaped characters are not properly handled

[xavivars]

screenshot

[dd32]

Hi @xavivars Can you link to where this is occuring?

[xavivars]

When I reported it, it was incorrect here:

• ​https://es.wordpress.org/team/
• ​https://ca.wordpress.org/team/

But now, instead of the date, on each message you see how long it was created...

[xavivars]

Actually, it's still incorrect on desktop, but it seems on mobile display there's a compact visualization mode that is correct.

[dd32]

It seems this is coming from the date_format being set to j \d\e F \d\e Y (This is likely coming from a GlotPress translated string)

That's then escaped to "dateFormat":"j \\d\\e F \\d\\e Y" when output as part of o2 settings, and it's then converted over to Moment.js date format in ​https://github.com/Automattic/o2/blob/master/js/utils/timestamp.js

It looks like the above o2 code doesn't handle escaped characters. I've filed an upstream issue: ​https://github.com/Automattic/o2/issues/226

[dd32]

Took it upstream, but it should now be fixed too.