Issue with getting a Date Value from a field on the Safari Browser on Browserstack

[troyyer]

Hi there,

I'm unsure if this is related to Browserstack or if it's related to the Safari Browser itself so could I request someone with a MacOS device (I just have Windows machines from Work and personal) to please run this locally on their machine and check if it's working on their machines as well as on a cloud vendor if you have access to one.
I have a weird behaviour I am seeing on Safari where a field that has a Date Value is not being retrieved using getText() whereas the same will work with Chrome
I have saved the code in this repos and it assumes that you have a Browserstack account (potentially it could run on any of the other cloud providers by running the wdio cli install)
https://github.com/troyyer/wdiov8browserstackSafariDateField
I have a test to fetch some values from a Salesforce page. when i get the text value for a string value, it comes thru without any issue but when the field has a Date Value, it always comes up as blank
I found a Salesforce preview site to trial this out ( it's a very dirty script with a long wait for the iframes to load)

I have highlighted the 2 fields I am trying to getText() for
in the code I have a console log

 
  console.log(`browser ${browser.capabilities.browserName} this is a text field: `+ await $(`//c-date/div/h2`).getText())
  console.log(`browser ${browser.capabilities.browserName} this is a Date field: `+ await $(`//p//lightning-formatted-date-time[1]`).getText())
    

on Safari the console.log shows the date as blank and the Text field appearing


On chrome this works

I have also trialled with putting in a debug await browser.debug() after the iframes load and trialed selecting the data from the REPL

 $(`//p//lightning-formatted-date-time[1]`).getText()
 
$(`//c-date/div/h2`).getText()

with Chrome

with Safari

So depending on someone help with some additional findings, I will raise something either in the WebdriverIO repo or will post it to the Browserstack support