Resolved - Implemented Option to change date format

[audio_tony]

All the posts I've seen have the data in US format yyyy-mm-dd - but here in the UK we use dd/mm/yyyy

I've looked in user preferences, but I can't seem to find any way to change it?

Am I missing the place to change it or can it not be changed?

 

[KSTR]

yyyy-mm-dd is international/standardized date format and the most logical/intuitive one. US format is the crazy mm/dd/yyyy notation. Germany/UK have dd/mm/yyyy.

I hope the forum does not change it (and it is not customizable atm).

 

[Pano]

Did the old software do that? I can't remember. Having it appear in whatever format your computer uses would be nice.
Nothing crazy about the US format, it based on the way we say the date. 12/24/1946 is December 24th, 1946. In French it is le Vingt-Quatre-Décembre, 1946 or 24/12/1946. Similar to "the twenty-fourth of December, 1946" or 24/12/1946..

But whatever you use, the forum should be able to display your preference.
EDIT: I don't see anything in the profile settings. Maybe its a global setting

 

[ferret]

@Pano - totally agree with you, that the format used in the PC settings should be used by the web interface. All browsers are supposed to do that. Probably just a setting that needs to be enabled at some point.

 

[finnsam]

If this forum software ever gets that feature, every user could just use the format they want.

$ LC_TIME=ja_JP.utf8 date +%c
2021年12月23日 10時00分58秒

$ LC_TIME=de_DE.utf8 date +%c
Do 23 Dez 2021 10:01:34 EET

But that takes a lot of space. ISO 8601 FTW.

 

[Jason]

Please send a screenshot of where the date you're referring to is, as there are lots of dates and formats all over the place, which should all be appropriate for the use case.

In general, the plan is to use the international format YYYY-MM-DD where a local styled date isn't appropriate.

 

[audio_tony]

Here you are.

 

[finnsam]

Please send a screenshot of where the date you're referring to is, as there are lots of dates and formats all over the place, which should all be appropriate for the use case.

In general, the plan is to use the international format YYYY-MM-DD where a local styled date isn't appropriate.

I was referring to ferret's comment about user's locale-specific date/time display, or as he said, "format used in the PC settings".

 

[grataku]

Please use the international or the day-month-year.
I always disliked the silly US month-day-year standard.
I have not got used to it after 30 years

 

[Jason]

As an Australian stuck in between AU/GB/US/SAE/Metric worlds, the YYYY-MM-DD is the only format I've found to be immediately obvious as there is no possibility to confuse it with another format.

I did some digging and in XF the date format is defined by the language. It's possible we could have this selectable in the future. I'm going to flag this as a lower priority but put it on the roadmap. For now we'll stick with international, but adding MM-DD-YYYY and DD-MM-YYYY might not be that hard to arrange as a selectable option in your control panel.

 

[Jason]

If you go to https://www.diyaudio.com/community/account/preferences you will now see 3 options for language, offering international, US and British (is there a better name for this?) date formats.

 

[audio_tony]

That's excellent, thank you.