[Bug 1161209] [NEW] (stderr) Failed to parse new birthday string

[Alexander Sashnov]

Public bug reported:

When I run empathy from command line, I can see following in my console
window:

alex at umbrella:~$ empathy &
[1] 3786
alex at umbrella:~$ 
(empathy:3786): telepathy-WARNING **: tpf-persona.vala:841: Failed to parse new birthday string '11.06.1981'

(empathy:3786): telepathy-WARNING **: tpf-persona.vala:841: Failed to parse new birthday string '1/01/1981'
alex at umbrella:~$ 

Is it a problem to parse these date strings? Seems it would be clear.
The first one:

11.06.1981 is standard form of date in Russia.   (day.month.year)

The second is American one:

1/01/1981   ( month/day/year ).

As a programmer, I understand we are expected another date format here,
but  why just don't parse it properly in case of exception occured?

If it already parsed properly may be its not usefull to print out this
warning.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: empathy 3.4.2.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-37.58-generic 3.2.35
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 28 12:31:30 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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  (stderr) Failed to parse new birthday string

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