Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
05.01.11 14:36:59
I feel it should be NA format. MM.DD.YYYY
I feel it should be NA format. MM.DD.YYYY
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
Native language and date format of phpBB forums is British English, and unfortunately I cannot change it immediately though I can look into it tomorrow.
Would M jS, Y, H:i suffice? That would be shown as "Jan 1st, 2007, 13:37".
Would M jS, Y, H:i suffice? That would be shown as "Jan 1st, 2007, 13:37".
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
There's only one format that should exist: ISO.
yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
/programmer's pet peeve.
yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
/programmer's pet peeve.
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
I agree here, but I like 12 hour clock, not 24hour..laurent wrote:There's only one format that should exist: ISO.
yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
/programmer's pet peeve.
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
Assuming you are referring to the forum, you can set your date/time preference in the User Control panel.
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
You're right, Laurent. Unfortunately phpBB made it difficult to modify the language.php files (regardless of how many times I make them all 777
). To answer your question the time is in a modified phpBB specific ISO 8601 format.
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
Not only that, but phpBB also fails spectacularly at managing the daylight savings time... official response from pphBB admins is "Post an announcement twice a year so that users go to their control panels and change their DST, just like they would also set their microwave oven clocks."
... yeah ... of course.
... yeah ... of course.
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
It is a bit odd, yes. However right now until I can modify the module phpBB offers to fit our needs it is going to have to stay on UTC...
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
Well... I am British, so a British date is fine to me, but I understand where I am, so Kris, if you log into your admin panel then click on Board Settings on the left hand side, you can change the time format in there.
Choose custom, then play around with the box to the right of it until you get the time format you want.
Here is a little screenshot that might help
Choose custom, then play around with the box to the right of it until you get the time format you want.
Here is a little screenshot that might help
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
Some example values for custom:
Y-m-d H:i == 2011-01-06 22:04
See http://ca.php.net/manual/function.date.php
Y-m-d H:i == 2011-01-06 22:04
See http://ca.php.net/manual/function.date.php
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
Yes Jake, the difficulty was coming from the previous versions of phpBB 3.0.6-PL, I have since upgraded this board to phpBB ver. 3.0.8 which includes this ability to change the code around (Time-wise).Choose custom, then play around with the box to the right of it until you get the time format you want.
D M d, Y g:i a is what it is set to, which is again, Thu, Jan 6th 2011 10:23 am. I'm trying to wrap my head around the urgency of adding Y-m-d H:i when it is a less descriptive format which leaves more to interpret.
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
I don't see any to be honest.
As I mentioned I am British, and I do find that some places over here use our way, and some the American way which leads to big confusions. So I usually write dates long hand (dd-MMM-yy), or with at least the month written as "Jan" to avoid confusion. Spending all my life reading dd-mm-yyyy seeing anything else just isn't cricket![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
As I mentioned I am British, and I do find that some places over here use our way, and some the American way which leads to big confusions. So I usually write dates long hand (dd-MMM-yy), or with at least the month written as "Jan" to avoid confusion. Spending all my life reading dd-mm-yyyy seeing anything else just isn't cricket
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Re: same question now for Call logs
Let me add same question now for Call logs.
The format is same. Like
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Connect time Disconnect time
07.01.11 22:14:23 07.01.11 22:14:33
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I don't like it. It should be mm-dd-yyyy
Why? Is it because designers/developers are British/Indians?
The format is same. Like
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Connect time Disconnect time
07.01.11 22:14:23 07.01.11 22:14:33
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I don't like it. It should be mm-dd-yyyy
Why? Is it because designers/developers are British/Indians?
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
To answer your question here; No, they are located in Sofia, Bulgaria.Why? Is it because designers/developers are British/Indians?
As we digress here, there is no strong sense of urgency for changing this if any at all; for the time being we'll have to deal with this as is.
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
Thanks for the info.
This was not urgent matter. Just wanted to clear this for a while.
This was not urgent matter. Just wanted to clear this for a while.
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Re: Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy
There will be no argument on November 11th of this year. ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
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