Revert "Merge pull request #14078 from edx/yro_remove-datetimetext-functions"

This reverts commit 8c0098812d, reversing
changes made to 5b6e2dd5ee.

lms/static/js/discovery/views/course_card.js

@@ -4,19 +4,24 @@
         'underscore',
         'backbone',
         'gettext',
-        'edx-ui-toolkit/js/utils/date-utils'
-    ], function($, _, Backbone, gettext, DateUtils) {
+        'date'
+    ], function($, _, Backbone, gettext, Date) {
         'use strict';
 
-        function formatDate(date, userLanguage, userTimezone) {
-            var context;
-            context = {
-                datetime: date,
-                language: userLanguage,
-                timezone: userTimezone,
-                format: DateUtils.dateFormatEnum.shortDate
-            };
-            return DateUtils.localize(context);
+        function formatDate(date) {
+            return dateUTC(date).toString('MMM dd, yyyy');
+        }
+
+    // Return a date object using UTC time instead of local time
+        function dateUTC(date) {
+            return new Date(
+            date.getUTCFullYear(),
+            date.getUTCMonth(),
+            date.getUTCDate(),
+            date.getUTCHours(),
+            date.getUTCMinutes(),
+            date.getUTCSeconds()
+        );
         }
 
         return Backbone.View.extend({
@@ -31,26 +36,8 @@
 
             render: function() {
                 var data = _.clone(this.model.attributes);
-                var userLanguage = '',
-                    userTimezone = '';
-                if (this.model.userPreferences !== undefined) {
-                    userLanguage = this.model.userPreferences.userLanguage;
-                    userTimezone = this.model.userPreferences.userTimezone;
-                }
-                if (data.advertised_start !== undefined) {
-                    data.start = data.advertised_start;
-                } else {
-                    data.start = formatDate(
-                        new Date(data.start),
-                        userLanguage,
-                        userTimezone
-                    );
-                }
-                data.enrollment_start = formatDate(
-                    new Date(data.enrollment_start),
-                    userLanguage,
-                    userTimezone
-                );
+                data.start = formatDate(new Date(data.start));
+                data.enrollment_start = formatDate(new Date(data.enrollment_start));
                 this.$el.html(this.tpl(data));
                 return this;
             }

lms/static/js/discovery/views/courses_listing.js

@@ -31,15 +31,12 @@
             },
 
             renderItems: function() {
-                /* eslint no-param-reassign: [2, { "props": true }] */
                 var latest = this.model.latest();
                 var items = latest.map(function(result) {
-                    result.userPreferences = this.model.userPreferences;
                     var item = new CourseCardView({model: result});
                     return item.render().el;
                 }, this);
                 this.$list.append(items);
-                /* eslint no-param-reassign: [2, { "props": false }] */
             },
 
             attachScrollHandler: function() {