Date 'Configuration'

Involved Joined: Aug 06, 2005 Posts: 301

Can someone plese help me understand what the date 'configuration' in the personal account/My profile settings is all about here?

It is currently defaulted to: D M d, Y g:i a

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Are you asking how it is used in phpnuke or what the syntax is?

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:15 am

Hi Raven,

Ultimately I am asking what the current syntaxt 'stands for'/represents, in order I can make it a little clearer to registered users in their account settings, thus they can adjust it accordingly.

Howevr, after reading the PHP Website, (http://uk2.php.net/date), about 5 time now, I do believe that I now understand.

Please would you confirm that in a users account, under 'Personal Information' and in the 'Forums Date format' files, the following is true:

The characters input, (i.e. D M d, Y g:i a), each represent part of the time and date structure.

Therefore if the current characters in the field are 'D M d, Y g:i a', circa the time of THIS posting, this would display as:

Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:08 am ....correct?

I think this is not so much 'a little too complicated' for a user to understand, moreover they won't/don't need or want to have to worry about such technicalities, when all they want to do is use the website they have signed up to use.

For this reason, I am wondering why a more simpler, user friendly configuration method is not used, (i.e. Maybe muti-choice, using radio buttons or drop down menu)?...Is there such an upgrade or option?

If their is not, I think I will simply create a textural example, akin to my observations above.

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:21 am

This simple hack greatly improves the time display [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]
so that once it is set in the users preferences for the forums it stays the same for news posts.

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:25 am

Quote:

The characters input, (i.e. D M d, Y g:i a), each represent part of the time and date structure. Therefore if the current characters in the field are 'D M d, Y g:i a', circa the time of THIS posting, this would display as:

Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:08 am ....correct?

Correct

Quote:

I think this is not so much 'a little too complicated' for a user to understand, moreover they won't/don't need or want to have to worry about such technicalities, when all they want to do is use the website they have signed up to use.

Agreed

Quote:

For this reason, I am wondering why a more simpler, user friendly configuration method is not used, (i.e. Maybe muti-choice, using radio buttons or drop down menu)?...Is there such an upgrade or option?

Not to my knowledge. This is the first time ever that I remember anyone commenting on it. It's never been a priority, obviously, for that reason.

Quote:

If their is not, I think I will simply create a textural example, akin to my observations above.

Go for it

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:28 am

Thanks Raven....It is sometime nice to know when one is able to 'sing from the same hyme sheet', without 'wading in waters too deep'. Cheers

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:27 am

This is weird.

When I first created my website, I also created a test registered user account.

I note than the default setting for the users account, under 'Personal Information' and the 'Forums Date format' field was:

D M d, Y g:i a

However I now see that new users have the default setting:

Y-m-d, H:i:s

I am not sure if it is related directly, but the settings in the 'Preferences' 'Local Time Format:' is en_US

Also in the PHPBB General Configuration section, the 'Date Format' field is set to:

D M d, Y g:i a

What gives?

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6432

I haven't played around with this that much - you can probably figure it out by trying different combinations of settings in Nuke admin preferences, Forum administration, and CNB YA configuration...