Date format - Page 2

DanaLea · October 25, 2002, 22:41

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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

Tuberski · October 25, 2002, 22:55

Double Login, It's not allowed to have 2 or more login names.

Skanky Burns · October 25, 2002, 23:53

Although very common for some people to start new logins for trolling purposes.

*cough*AH*cough*

moomin · October 26, 2002, 07:42

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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.

Provost Harrison · October 26, 2002, 09:24

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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

Switch · October 26, 2002, 19:32

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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.

The current location of me in the fourth dimension is (20)02-10-26 T 19:33

aaglo · October 28, 2002, 06:14

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.

Dauphin · October 28, 2002, 09:46

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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.

Lefty Scaevola · October 28, 2002, 10:08

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.

ixnay · October 28, 2002, 10:26

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."

TheStinger · October 28, 2002, 11:52

if every day was 01-01-01 then there wouldn't be a problem

Dauphin · October 28, 2002, 12:05

We should all be called Bob too.

Gramphos · October 28, 2002, 15:11

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.)

ixnay · October 28, 2002, 16:36

You don't even need a hack; it's a setting in the admin control panel.

Buck Birdseed · October 28, 2002, 19:03

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...

Skanky Burns · October 28, 2002, 20:02

I'd like to see it changed to YYYYMMDD.

ixnay · October 28, 2002, 20:14

What do you know:

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

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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.

Lefty Scaevola · October 28, 2002, 20:52

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Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
We should all be called Bob too.

or Kosh.

Rasbelin · October 29, 2002, 03:40

I second Ixy's proposal.

Very good idea, indeed.

aaglo · October 29, 2002, 04:22

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..

Dauphin · October 29, 2002, 09:50

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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".

Skanky Burns · October 29, 2002, 20:26

Yeah, its not used often, but that format is used.

Buck Birdseed · October 31, 2002, 15:07

So come on mark, are you going to implement this or what?

ixnay · October 31, 2002, 22:11

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!

Buck Birdseed · November 1, 2002, 06:08

Date format choice! Date format choice! Rah! Rah! Rah!

Rasbelin · November 1, 2002, 07:35

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

spartak · November 2, 2002, 08:34

Hey guuys - chill, give Markos a break. Contrary to appearance he probably does have a life outside the forums.

Gramphos · November 2, 2002, 13:03

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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.