25-11-2002 18:14									#1
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New options under "Date&Time Options" let you choose the date and time formats for the entire forum

http://apolyton.net/forums/member.p...ion=editoptions

	25-11-2002 18:19									#2
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I know a lot of people who will thank you for that.

	25-11-2002 18:21									#3
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What's so special about 25th April 1998?

	25-11-2002 18:25									#4
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just a random date....

	25-11-2002 18:49									#5
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Nice touch, MarkG

Thank you very many!

	25-11-2002 19:13									#6
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quote: What's so special about 25th April 1998?

that's the day I turned 20!

	25-11-2002 19:15									#7
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thanks for this feature btw, markos!
eventhoug I never noticed another but the european date-system was used, but that might be because I never paid attention to it.

	25-11-2002 19:21									#8
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Nice feature However...

Where's the YYYY-MM-DD format?! Comply to ISO standards!

quote: Advantages of the ISO 8601 standard date notation compared to other commonly used variants: easily readable and writeable by software no 'JAN', 'FEB', ... table necessary) easily comparable and sortable with a trivial string comparison language independent can not be confused with other popular date notations consistency with the common 24h time notation system, where the larger units (hours) are also written in front of the smaller ones (minutes and seconds) strings containing a date followed by a time are also easily comparable and sortable (e.g. write "1995-02-04 22:45:00") the notation is short and has constant length, which makes both keyboard data entry and table layout easier identical to the Chinese date notation, so the largest cultural group (>25%) on this planet is already familiar with it :-) date notations with the order "year, month, day" are in addition already widely used e.g. in Japan, Korea, Hungary, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and a few other countries and people in the U.S. are already used to at least the "month, day" order a 4-digit year representation avoids overflow problems after 2099-12-31

	25-11-2002 19:29									#9
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Though I would like some date formats that use the 3-letter month abbreviation (Nov-25-02)

	25-11-2002 19:32									#10
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Thanks very much, Markos! Now I can finally show the time and date using the common Finnish style of typing it.

	25-11-2002 19:35									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Locutus Identical to the Chinese date notation, so the largest cultural group (>25%) on this planet is already familiar with it :-)

That should really read:

Not identical to the rest of the world date notation, so the large majority (>70%) on this planet are not familiar with it.

	25-11-2002 19:41									#12
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70% excluding Japan, Korea, Hungary, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and a few other countries (not to mention people who live elsewhere but have been using that standard already, like yours truly). So it's closer to 50-60%

And you're forgetting about the 9.5 other advantages...

	26-11-2002 00:18									#14
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While I much appreciate all the hard work... why? Has this actually been a common complaint?

I know when I first came here I wasn't used to it and confused by the DD-MM-YYYY at first but I grew accustomed to it, especially knowing that a lot of the world used it... (or so I thought).

So what is the standard, most widely used (by country... sorry Locutus) format? And is that offered? Because that's what I'd want to change mine to. I'm tired of being a closed-minded isolationist that doesn't know anything outside my own country (and Apolyton, actually, is what helped open my eyes to the rest of the world.)

	26-11-2002 00:23									#15
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Cool.

Is it possible to get the leading 0s trimmed in some of the time options? IE: 08:07 am would become 8:07 am?

It just looks kinda silly to me with the extra zero.


Great job though.

	26-11-2002 02:55									#16
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quote: So what is the standard, most widely used (by country... sorry Locutus) format?

I think that would be DD-MM-YYYY, but officially that might be YYYY-MMM-DD as well........

	26-11-2002 04:18									#17
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Cool. Nice 1

	26-11-2002 05:12									#18
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Yay!

* Skanky Burns leaves the date format exactly as it is.

	26-11-2002 05:50									#19
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quote: Originally posted by ixnay37 Though I would like some date formats that use the 3-letter month abbreviation (Nov-25-02)

I would go for a format like that too, but whether or not you make that refinement, I am extremely grateful for this change.

Thank you; Thank you; Thank you.

	26-11-2002 06:20									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Yay! * Skanky Burns leaves the date format exactly as it is.

* MrWhereItsAt does too

Is it REALLY true that our system is an internationally known and used one? American dates did always confuse me, but I expected they were Nth Hemisphere ones and that we were in the minority.

	26-11-2002 07:06									#21
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I want to conform to what the rest of the world uses, but I'm just too lazy.

	26-11-2002 18:14									#22
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quote: Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt Is it REALLY true that our system is an internationally known and used one? American dates did always confuse me, but I expected they were Nth Hemisphere ones and that we were in the minority.

DD-MM-YYYY is the most common format used, the most commonly endorsed format is YYYY-MM-DD.

	26-11-2002 18:32									#23
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bleh, the american format...

	26-11-2002 19:12									#24
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As Always, (well almost always ) Fine Job Mark.

RAH

	28-11-2002 08:21									#25
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Nice, MarkG.....except, there is no YYYY-MM-DD

	29-11-2002 01:51									#26
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Where's the YYYY-MM-DD format?

That's the one that I always use. Actually, I use YYYY.MM.DD or YYYY/MM/DD, but that's irrelevant.

	29-11-2002 02:33									#27
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Thank you Markos! Well done.

Now, if you'd only implement the YYMMDD or YY-MM-DD format, I'd be eternally grateful. For, like, several days at least.

	29-11-2002 03:12									#28
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I wonder why no one has mentioned that the YYYY-MM-DD format is unavailable.

	29-11-2002 04:25									#29
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quote: Now, if you'd only implement the YYMMDD or YY-MM-DD format, I'd be eternally grateful.

I find that very difficult to read, why would you want the year first? Isn't knowing the date more relevant? Today in that format is 021129!! how do you say that out loud? confusing as hell.

A much better format (and incidentally the one I use) is 29/11-02 which is easily read as 29th of november 2002.

	29-11-2002 04:34									#30
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The one I use is 11-28-02. Why?

Because I say it like "November 28th, 2002", so this makes sense.