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 Yearless dates in Forums Message #23756    Replies: 1
posted by The_Burglar (The_Burglar) on 05/14 at 11:10
On LittleGolem's Forum I like to read the latest, this is easy to find because it shows how old (minutes, hours or days) each newest message is.

Here it shows the date without the year, how do we find the most recent chat?
 
 Re: Yearless dates in Forums Message #23757    Replies: 0
posted by playBunny (pB) on 05/16 at 20:35
You'll have to give an example of a missing year.

The forum shows this for your thread.
|__Yearless dates in Forums __|__ The_Burglar __|__ 1 __|__ 05/14/2015 12:10 PM __|__ 05/14/2015 12:10 PM __|
And the thread shows this for your post.
posted by The_Burglar (The_Burglar) on 05/14/2015 at 12:10 PM
However, I do understand how unreadable plain ol' numeric dates are, they don't even show the months as a word. I have some trickery that makes Pocket-Monkey show the age. For me, your thread shows as "2 days, 9 hours".

It's the same on the game sheet. I find Last Turn On "05/16/2015 08:41 PM" and Must Move By "05/23/2015 08:41 PM" to be next to useless so I change them to Last Turn On "49 mins" and Must Move By "6 days, 23 hours"
 this is the line I see using firefox on windows xp Message #23759    Replies: 1
posted by The_Burglar (The_Burglar) on 05/19 at 14:36
Yearless dates in Forums The_Burglar 2 14/05 12:10 16/05 21:35
 
 Re: this is the line I see using firefox on windows xp Message #23760    Replies: 1
posted by playBunny (pB) on 05/24 at 19:53
Ah, I think I know what it might be. Pop along to your settings page and have a look at Date/Time Display. :-)
   
 Re: this is the line I see using firefox on windows xp Message #23761    Replies: 1
posted by The_Burglar (The_Burglar) on 05/25 at 11:28
Cheers set it to my favourite date format of yyyy-mm-dd

best one for resaving/sorting, ie CV.2015.05.25.pdf will name sort last (note always include 0's)

the worst date format is the USA mm-dd-yyyy (illogical order)
     
 Re: this is the line I see using firefox on windows xp Message #23762    Replies: 1
posted by playBunny (pB) on 05/25 at 14:23
Cheers set it to my favourite date format of yyyy-mm-dd
Mine's DDD DDth MMM YYYY, eg. Mon 25th May 2015, but it's extremely rare to find a site where the web designer understands that some people prefer the day with a suffix.
best one for resaving/sorting,
Yes, I use YYYY.MM.DD on archive files, for the computer, but I usually add DDth MMM for me. ;-)
the worst date format is the USA mm-dd-yyyy (illogical order)
I quite agree. That one drives me crazy, as well as many others beyond the boundaries of the good ol' US of A. What the hell is 04/05/2015 supposed to represent? Why don't they at least make it Apr/05/2015 so that people can get it at a glance without needing to do mental calendar gymnastics that might not even solve the puzzle?

America (and tiny Belize) are the only countries clinging to M/D/Y. Maybe after getting rid of the yard and the mile they might consider joining the rest of the world in dropping M/D/Y?

Lol, you sparked off a pet rant of mine. ;o)
       
 Re: this is the line I see using firefox on windows xp Message #23763    Replies: 1
posted by judybell (judy s :O)) on 05/30 at 19:25
no one puts things on here much anymore
         
 Re: this is the line I see using firefox on windows xp Message #23768    Replies: 0
posted by The_Burglar (The_Burglar) on 06/05 at 20:23
Quite interesting times

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