Why the date format in British? i..e dd.mm.yy

[mjbad2]

05.01.11 14:36:59

I feel it should be NA format. MM.DD.YYYY

[FONGO_kris]

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".

[laurent]

There's only one format that should exist: ISO.

yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

/programmer's pet peeve.

[OverDrive]

There's only one format that should exist: ISO.

yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

/programmer's pet peeve.

I agree here, but I like 12 hour clock, not 24hour..

[tbrummell]

Assuming you are referring to the forum, you can set your date/time preference in the User Control panel.

[FONGO_kris]

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.

[laurent]

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.

[FONGO_kris]

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...

[Jake]

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

[laurent]

Some example values for custom:

Y-m-d H:i == 2011-01-06 22:04

See http://ca.php.net/manual/function.date.php

[FONGO_kris]

Choose custom, then play around with the box to the right of it until you get the time format you want.

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).

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.

[Jake]

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

[mjbad2]

Let me add same question now for Call logs.
The format is same. Like
--------------------------------------------------
Connect time Disconnect time
07.01.11 22:14:23 07.01.11 22:14:33
--------------------------------------------------

I don't like it. It should be mm-dd-yyyy


Why? Is it because designers/developers are British/Indians?

[FONGO_kris]

Why? Is it because designers/developers are British/Indians?

To answer your question here; No, they are located in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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.

[mjbad2]

Thanks for the info.

This was not urgent matter. Just wanted to clear this for a while.

[laurent]

There will be no argument on November 11th of this year.