Date format

Snograt

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25 Feb 2009 at 16:49 - 1
Is there any way to make date format configurable in the User CP? I know I should be used to it by now, but the American style mm.dd.yyyy still throws me occasionally - I'm used to the British dd.mm.yyyy

If the time format can be configured to user settings, can't date be tweaked the same way? My technical knowledge of vBulletin is pretty poor

I would suggest changing to MMM.dd.yyy otherwise, ie Apr.01.2009, Sep.29.2009 etc., but that's far less international.

Inde

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25 Feb 2009 at 18:47 - 2
Hmmm, I'll check sno.

Unlucky Slayer

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25 Feb 2009 at 21:06 - 3
Saying the month name would be much better anyway that way we dont get confused people like Snoggy here and his backwards dates. =P

Yang Whirlwind

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25 Feb 2009 at 23:30 - 4
Backwards?
Smallest value to highest:
date -> month -> year, is eminently logical.
month -> date -> year, is just confused,- middle, start, end.

Proof: Cky Sunluayer <- that's your user name translated to "confused" format. Sound a bit like Sky the Sunlawyer

Don't feel bad,- those UK chaps still think there are measurement units called a Stone and an Inch

On a more serious note; I think we could eliminate some of the violations in Ventari's if people didn't get confused because of the time format. Would be a very useful option to add.

Diddy bow

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26 Feb 2009 at 17:17 - 5
It occasionally throws me as well, always wanted to change it .

(Month at the start? why? )

Unlucky Slayer

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26 Feb 2009 at 18:24 - 6
Month first just sounds better when you say it out loud.

Yang Whirlwind

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26 Feb 2009 at 23:58 - 7
So does slang - but that too looks like crap in writing!

In Danish we say it like we write it - lowest to highest value: day, month, year. It sounds fine!

Commander Ryker

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27 Feb 2009 at 01:20 - 8
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yang Whirlwind View Post
In Danish we say it like we write it - lowest to highest value: day, month, year. It sounds fine! So do we only we say the month first and that makes perfect sense to us. Although our military does it the same weird way you do.

Wolf2581

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27 Feb 2009 at 03:53 - 9
Reading the month before the day in certain applications, such as on an Internet forum, is logical to many people for various reasons. It is just as intuitive as how we know that 12:00 is noon rather than twelve minutes past midnight, but the logic behind date formats is not really the issue here.

I am surprised that the date format is not a user-configurable option by default. I am much more familiar with phpBB, but I do know that the date format in vBulletin can at least be configured in the ACP. If it is impossible to change on the user level, I would suggest YYYY-MM-DD as a compromise.

Yang Whirlwind

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27 Feb 2009 at 13:33 - 10
If we could get the month represented by: Jan, Feb, etc. (like Snog suggested) the rest doesn't really matter.
It's the date and the month people get confused.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Commander Ryker View Post
Although our military does it the same weird way you do. That's simply because it is more correct.
Don't feel bad though, in Danish we mess up figures instead:
167 - et hundrede tyv og tres (one hundred seven and sixty). That's equally wrong! But it illustrates very eloquently how your dates look to us.

Unlucky Slayer

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27 Feb 2009 at 13:42 - 11
Saying the year first is just bad. Please no.

But yeah as long as the month is first and is spelled out everything will be fine.

Inde

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17 Mar 2009 at 00:36 - 12
Thanks for the reminder Yang. Done.

Doofledust

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17 Mar 2009 at 09:07 - 13
Thank you very much Inde, no more posts from the future.

Yang Whirlwind

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17 Mar 2009 at 09:30 - 14
Let all of GWG rejoice! Thanks Inde!

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17 Mar 2009 at 11:33 - 15
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