Forum suggestion: Change date format

[Virchanza]

I've lived most of my life in Europe, so I'm used to the following date format:

day/month/year (e.g. September 5th 2003 = 5/9/2003)

However in the USA, people do:

month/day/year (e.g. September 5th 2003 = 9/5/2003)

On this forum, all the dates are displayed as month/day/year. I went into my own personal forum settings to try change the date format, but it doesn't give me an option to change it (or maybe I missed it?).

What I suggest is one of the following:

1) Let each individual user set their date format in their personal settings.

2) Or, better yet, use the YEAR-MM-DD format, e.g. 2002-09-11, because it's 100% clear and nobody gets confused.

[Snayler]

I also live in Europe, so I agree with you. Another solution would be installing a "English (UK)" language pack (e.g. the "Español (ES)" language pack has the date in European format).

[Gitsnik]

I'm raising my hand for this feature as well (1 would be nice, 2 would be good), as someone who has worked and coordinated internationally, we had to use "5th Sept 2010" date format due to the conflicting MM/DD DD/MM lines. 2010-09-05 sounds perfect.

I'm good with GMT/UTC, but a date rework would be fun.

Side Note: Anyone dug through vBulletin lately? How is it stored in the SQL?

[Barry]

I say we change it to stardates..... I'm American and use dummy dates, but I'm prior military, so I'm warped that way.

[purehate]

I'll look into it however I will admit its not going to be high on my list of stuff to do.

[ceefus]

If you right click the clock in the bottom right corner (assuming you're running std KDE) and left click "Date & Time format -> Time & Date formats" you can adjust it to your liking.

Hope this helps..

[Barry]

I'll look into it however I will admit its not going to be high on my list of stuff to do.

Sweet! Stardates in the forum!!!

[purehate]

If you right click the clock in the bottom right corner (assuming you're running std KDE) and left click "Date & Time format -> Time & Date formats" you can adjust it to your liking.

Hope this helps..

We were talking about the forums, not the actual distro however thanks for trying to be helpful.

[thorin]

However in the USA, people do:

month/day/year (e.g. September 5th 2003 = 9/5/2003)

Personally I have to say that's really horrible, why anyone would ever put the month first is completely baffling.

Dates should be either smallest element to largest or largest to smallest.
YYYY/MM/DD
or
DD/MM/YYYY

IIRC ISO 8601 outlines largest to smallest using a hyphen as the separator and leading 0s on numbers < 10 (YYYY-MM-DD).

If you right click the clock in the bottom right corner (assuming you're running std KDE) and left click "Date & Time format -> Time & Date formats" you can adjust it to your liking.

Hope this helps..

Wow that so totally did NOT help. Way to totally and completely miss the point of the thread.

[Archangel-Amael]

What bunch of crazy talk. This is a forum for a linux distro and as such it should be Unix (posix) time and nothing else.