26-10-2002 07:41									#31
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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin Have you considered how you would abbreviate DanaLea?

Dana is fine....

but what is DL? I see download when I see DL.

-dana

	26-10-2002 07:55									#32
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Double Login, It's not allowed to have 2 or more login names.

	26-10-2002 08:53									#33
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Although very common for some people to start new logins for trolling purposes.

*cough*AH*cough*

	26-10-2002 16:42									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed If you do this, could you also implement the ISO standard YYMMDD format?

Snappy & I agree. The End is Nigh.

Also, when you're at it, could you please officially endorse SI as the only legitimate Apolyton metric? Five week insta-ban for anybody using medieval units, be they brits or merkins.

	26-10-2002 18:24									#35
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quote: Originally posted by ixnay37 Which is why I want 25-Oct-2002. It's a nice compromise that isn't confusing.

Yes, I completely agree, and it is remarkably easy for Markos to do. I did this on CGN and it took me about 2 minutes...and you can have the long form of month if you are really picky too

	27-10-2002 04:32									#36
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quote: Originally posted by moomin Snappy & I agree. The End is Nigh. Also, when you're at it, could you please officially endorse SI as the only legitimate Apolyton metric? Five week insta-ban for anybody using medieval units, be they brits or merkins.

Yeah, I agree!

And it's YY-MM-DD, dashes and all. I never understood the whole mm/dd/yy thing, which could also be confused with dd/mm/yy. I'm glad they came out with an official international standard.

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	28-10-2002 15:14									#37
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Why do Americans use the mm-dd-yy format?

It is not logical in any way.

Think about it. They year is the largest time indicator, and the day is the smallest time indicator. The month goes in between. Now why on earth anyone would want to place the middle-size in front?!?

If something is 1600,35 meters long, you don't say 600 meters, 35 centimeters and one kilometer - or do you?

And just to avoid mix-ups in the future, I concur the 28-Oct-2002 format.

	28-10-2002 18:46									#38
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quote: Originally posted by aaglo Why do Americans use the mm-dd-yy format? It is not logical in any way.

With things like this it is not logic that dictates. As a conjecture it might be that Americans are more likely to say "October the twenty-eighth" than "The twenty-eighth of October". Hence the order is written how it is spoken.

	28-10-2002 19:08									#39
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You think you got it bad between mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy? I am a 2532 year old Roman. I am used to naming the years by the names of consuls (difficult since there have been any for over a millenia) rather than numbering them. My calandar is a little dirrent, even though I got used that that one by that young puupy C. Iulius Caesar. The clock is so different also. Mine has 12 (expanding and contracting) hour from sunrise to sunset (We did not even number hour at night until we got into thoses state conpiracy things). I cannot for the life of me figure out daylight savings time.

	28-10-2002 19:26									#40
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The reason we have it as mm-dd-yy is because that's usually how it's spoken. "Hey, what day is it?" "Oh, it's October 28th."

	28-10-2002 20:52									#41
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if every day was 01-01-01 then there wouldn't be a problem

	28-10-2002 21:05									#42
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We should all be called Bob too.

	29-10-2002 00:11									#43
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I'm used to the date rormat Year-Month-Day, so this Poly format is bad for me to, but I've learned to live with it. (Even thou there are hacks to vBulletin which allows change of the format.)

	29-10-2002 01:36									#44
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You don't even need a hack; it's a setting in the admin control panel.

	29-10-2002 04:03									#45
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There are hacks that allow users to set the date format they want (like us swedes want YYMMDD...). IIRC the EU boards have that hack installed...

	29-10-2002 05:02									#46
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I'd like to see it changed to YYYYMMDD.

	29-10-2002 05:14									#47
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What do you know:

"Let users choose their own date and time format" hack
http://www.vbulletin.org/hacks/inde...hack&hackid=197

quote: it's really very very easy to install.

Give us this and everyone will be happy. I could finally get rid of that damn 24-hour clock and crazy date format.

	29-10-2002 05:52									#48
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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin We should all be called Bob too.

or Kosh.

	29-10-2002 12:40									#49
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I second Ixy's proposal. Very good idea, indeed.

	29-10-2002 13:22									#50
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Actually....

When I asked about the logicality of the mm-dd-yy format used by the Americans, in fact I ate the ground beneath me. Americans aren't logical in anything, so why they should be logical in this matter. just kidding

BTW, in finnish we can allways say (in finnish of course - these are only translations) '12th of October', 'October the 12th' and '12th of 10th'.
The last version 12th of 10th is not used in english (I believe), and thus it may be more difficult to the english speaking population to have difficulties with this current date format. We finns feel quite comfortable with it, though..

	29-10-2002 18:50									#51
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quote: Originally posted by aaglo The last version 12th of 10th is not used in english (I believe),

It is, usually when organising events and giving a date for diary. You speak it how you would write it in this case.

"What date is the party?"
"3rd of the 5th".

	30-10-2002 05:26									#52
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Yeah, its not used often, but that format is used.

	01-11-2002 00:07									#53
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So come on mark, are you going to implement this or what?

	01-11-2002 07:11									#54
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Yes, now that you've got this Civgroups thing and the avatar fix out of the way, I'm sure you've got plenty of free time to implement this!

	01-11-2002 15:08									#55
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Date format choice! Date format choice! Rah! Rah! Rah!

	01-11-2002 16:35									#56
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Dammit! Give us the ability to use the date display selection provided by the PHP language. It's supported by most free or open source BBS sotwares too, so why couldn't Poly implement it too?

PHP: date - Manual

	02-11-2002 17:34									#57
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Hey guuys - chill, give Markos a break. Contrary to appearance he probably does have a life outside the forums.

	02-11-2002 22:03									#58
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quote: Originally posted by ixnay37 You don't even need a hack; it's a setting in the admin control panel.

Not to make it a user option, but to change it for all.