Clock setting (AM/PM-> 24H)

[TCPlomp]

For a non US'er I still have issues understanding AM/PM could it be an option to set the time into 24H?

Thanks,

Ton

[TiTou]

Same request !

Also, it is sometimes confusing because apparently, a message is dated with the time at which it was written (fortunately in a way ) but as we are not all in the same time zone post can seem not to be in time order !

Could it be set in a way that each user will see TimeStamp "translated" is his time zone : for instance I would see post from US'er not in GMT +x but in GMT+1, so with an offset of x-1 ?

[nickbike]

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TiTou wrote: Same request ! Also, it is sometimes confusing because apparently, a message is dated with the time at which it was written (fortunately in a way ) but as we are not all in the same time zone post can seem not to be in time order !

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I will put in a request to have this user setable

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TiTou wrote: Could it be set in a way that each user will see TimeStamp "translated" is his time zone : for instance I would see post from US'er not in GMT +x but in GMT+1, so with an offset of x-1 ?

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I believe the forum already does this.  All posts are stamped in the backend with the same default timezone.  Then based on the setting in each individual's Preferences in their profile, it shows what time the post was made in their personal timezone.  For instance, your post that I am quoting says it was posted  09-27-2006 04:36 AM.  Now I am pretty sure you didn't post at 4:36 a.m. your time (but it could be possible ), but you did post at 4:36 a.m. my time while I was sleeping. Your interface should say you posted it at 11:36 a.m. because of the 7 hour time difference between U.S Central time and your time zone.  Please let me know if this is not the case or if I am misunderstanding your request.

[TiTou]

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Nick C a écrit:

I believe the forum already does this.  All posts are stamped in the backend with the same default timezone.  Then based on the setting in each individual's Preferences in their profile, it shows what time the post was made in their personal timezone.  For instance, your post that I am quoting says it was posted  09-27-2006 04:36 AM.  Now I am pretty sure you didn't post at 4:36 a.m. your time (but it could be possible ), but you did post at 4:36 a.m. my time while I was sleeping. Your interface should say you posted it at 11:36 a.m. because of the 7 hour time difference between U.S Central time and your time zone.  Please let me know if this is not the case or if I am misunderstanding your request.

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You are indeed right ! I asked something that already exists... Sorry about that !
To my credit, I was confused because of the AM/PM thing which always cost me a lot to translate to 24h !

[TCPlomp]

Only the edit time inside the post is not updating

see herewhere JoeLabView is posting at 10.06 PM (Berlin time) and edited at 4.08 PM (his local time I suppose)
This is not really an issue

Ton

[nickbike]

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@TonP wrote:
Only the edit time inside the post is not updating

see herewhere JoeLabView is posting at 10.06 PM (Berlin time) and edited at 4.08 PM (his local time I suppose)
This is not really an issue

Ton

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Good catch TonP.  This is caused by the edit times being written into the posts as plain text.  That is, if you click, "Edit this Message" on one of your posts (within 5 minutes of posting) then submit it, then click "Edit this Message" again you will see the edit time for the first edit written directly into the post as plain text.  Pretty much a non-issue, but good observation

-Nick

[TCPlomp]

While I'm still nagging

Wouldn't it be wunderfull if we could adjust the display of the date next to the message. A date of 10-02-2006 reminds me of february.... and I believe it is october...
It would be ultra-cool if we could have some format code   we'd all knew
wait.. I got one

Ton

Message Edited by TonP on 10-02-2006 01:13 PM

[Rod42]

I'd like to add to the nag!

To the UK community, the dates of messages appear "the wrong way round", and I for one would welcome a way to make them appear "correct". For example I'm writing this on 04/01/2007 (ie 04 Jan 2007) at 18:10, but this date and time will become re-formatted in the message posting date. At the moment it makes sense that I couldn't have written this message early one morning in April, but come All Fools Day....

So please can our profile include a date and time format. Other than American formats, the date choice ahould include yyyy-mm-dd and dd-mm-yyyy, and time should have a 24 hour clock option. I'm sure many of you on the other side of the Atlantic would also prefer a 24 hour clock.

Rod.

(in England)

[Laura F.]

Hi Rod,

I know that we submitted this feature request to our vendor previously when this thread was started, but I have re-submitted the request and added the part about having the different date formats available because I'm not sure if this was included or not.  I think it would be a useful feature to our many users on the forum outside of the US.

Thanks for the feedback!

Laura
Web Support & Operations

Message Edited by Laura F. on 01-04-2007 04:15 PM

[Ray.R]

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@TonP wrote:
Only the edit time inside the post is not updating

see here where JoeLabView is posting at 10.06 PM (Berlin time) and edited at 4.08 PM (his local time I suppose)
This is not really an issue

Ton

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Darn..  I guess the truth is out..  😮  I was actually experimenting with time travel while editing a post.. 😄 LOL!

I read the other posts on the subject of international dates.  Being a francophone (def: one who speaks french on the phone), and looking at dates, it is easy to get confused. I can never remember which format is for what country.  In Canada, we adopt the British-English (ie: flavour instead of flavor) and the International date designation.  But because of proximity to the US, we write the US way and... well, the dates become confusing..  Is it YY-MM-DD, or YY-DD-MM or MM-DD-YY or DD-MM-YY..??? 

when was 01-02-03??

need the time machine again for that..

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