Select YOUR OWN DATE/TIME FORMAT!

[MarkG]

New options under "Date&Time Options" let you choose the date and time formats for the entire forum

http://apolyton.net/forums/member.php?action=editoptions

[Dauphin]

I know a lot of people who will thank you for that.

[Dauphin]

What's so special about 25th April 1998?

[MarkG]

just a random date....

[aaglo]

Nice touch, MarkG

Thank you very many!

[Robert]

What's so special about 25th April 1998?

that's the day I turned 20!

[Robert]

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.

[Locutus]

Nice feature However...

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

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

[ixnay]

Though I would like some date formats that use the 3-letter month abbreviation (Nov-25-02)

[Rasbelin]

Thanks very much, Markos! Now I can finally show the time and date using the common Finnish style of typing it.

[Dauphin]

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.

[Locutus]

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...

[Ming]

[FlameFlash]

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.)

[Asher]

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.