Date format

Mik · 12-13-2002, 05:15 AM

Would it be very hard to be able to set the date format?
Right now it's set to month-day-year, I am used to the format day-month-year which is mainly used in the country I live in. But I prefer the format year-month-day. Anyways it's just confusing when I see a date 12-10-2002. Have to always look twice whether that's 10th of december or 12th of oktober.

Well it's not a big problem but it would be nice.
The today and yesterday is a nicely added feature which does make recent dates a lot easier to read.

jeremy · 12-13-2002, 10:07 PM

Mik,
I like this idea. As soon as I get a chance I'll implement it. Thanks for the suggestion.

--jeremy

jeremy · 12-14-2002, 12:35 PM

All set. Let me know what you think.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...on=editoptions

--jeremy

Mara · 12-14-2002, 02:55 PM

Very good idea. Works well for me. BTW Why are all the dates we can choose from June 16th and one June 25th?

jeremy · 12-14-2002, 03:20 PM

The June 25th was a typo and has been corrected. Thanks.

--jeremy

Mara · 12-14-2002, 03:26 PM

Well, it looked interesting...

Mik · 12-16-2002, 06:16 AM

That looks a lot better, thanks a lot. The extra option of setting the time format is nice too. The only one I couldn't find in the date format was year-month-day but I can live without it.

lyle_s · 12-04-2004, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mik The only one I couldn't find in the date format was year-month-day but I can live without it.

YYYY-MM-DD is the International Standards Organization (ISO) standard for representing dates, and the one I'd prefer too.

If anyone's interested in a little reading:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

In fact, I'd like to see this as linuxquestions.org's default date format since the audience is very much an international one in my experience.

Lyle

jeremy · 12-05-2004, 10:14 AM

I'll look into adding this in a future release of the forum software. It is what we are using for newer projects, such as http://iso.linuxquestions.org

--jeremy