date on forums

[paul]

thomas?

errm... i don't know how much control you get over these forums, how you can change stuff and whatever, but could you make the date display in the internet standard form of yy/mm/dd, at the moment i always get confused because the dates are written in mm/dd/yy and in the uk i read them as dd/mm/yy. i think it would be better to have international internet date format, so i don't get confused.

thanks, paul

[bratta]

These forums actually comes with all kinds of date formats "built in". So I can change to whatever you want, anyone else have any thoughts about what would be best?

I am leaning towards:
31 Dec 2001

Or

Dec 31 2001

But any other way is possible.

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[Brian Nickel]

I personally think Dec 31 2001 looks the best, but what would be cool (but highly absurd) would be to allow users to choose the structure they prefer as a user table setting and as long as they are logged on, they view the pages with that date structure.
Yes, I know I'm dreaming. :)

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[bratta]

See thread above..

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[paul]

i think this may come down to where you are in the world again. cos i am in the uk i read dates as dd/mm/yy and this seems the logical way of doing it, in order. the month first to me looks wrong. i think it would be best if you put it in yy/mm/dd as this is international, and is even more logical than dd/mm/yy cos you can then read it down yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss.

or 31 Dec 2001 from above.

oh well, either way is better than now,
paul

[Dan]

urg, Dec 31 2001 just looks messy (damn Americans!), gotta be 31 december 2001

Another advantage of doing it yy/mm/dd is that you can sort dates in the same way that you sort numbers and strings. But I think it looks weird to read 2001/12/31.

How about "Thirty-First December Two-Thousand and One"

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[bratta]

Did no one see this thread?

http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1615&FORUM_ID=5&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=New+forum+feature%2E%2E%2E&Forum_Title=dhtmlcentral%2Ecom

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[Dan]

only after I posted the last message - makes it loads easier to understand <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Edited by - Dan on 18 July 2001 18:49:51