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Date format weirdness

KartofelKartofel Registered User regular
edited November 2003 in H.Q. Reception Desk
I'm getting some really weird numbers

on the dates listed around the forum

some one ought to look into that

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited November 2003
    Any specifics to that?

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  • KartofelKartofel Registered User regular
    edited November 2003
    Last post on the top thread of the forum, I'm seeing this: e105Friday214105


    anything today seems to fine. anything older seems messed up

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited November 2003
    That's odd, I'm not getting that. Did you change the time settings in your profile? If so, you may have made a mistake. If not, try it and see if it changes anything.

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  • KartofelKartofel Registered User regular
    edited November 2003
    Switched em around for a bit, tried a few different settigns, it did nothing.

    I'm on -5 right now, but I just tried -4, -3, and +7.

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited November 2003
    I guess you're going to have to wait for someone intelligent to come help you then. :(

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited November 2003
    Have you tried logging out and logging back in?

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  • KartofelKartofel Registered User regular
    edited November 2003
    just tried that, didn't work

    it's not a huge problem for me, but I figured some one important around here might want to know about this kind of thing. If it's messed up for me, the odds, on a forum this large, are that I'm not the only one.

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited November 2003
    Don't suppose you'd mind taking a screeny and either posting it (if you have hosting), or IM'ing/emailing it to me (if you don't)?

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  • KartofelKartofel Registered User regular
    edited November 2003
    I'm working on an agenda for a twelve o'clock meeting right now. When I get back from the meeting, I'll take the screenshot and email you.

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited November 2003
    Look in your profile for the box below Timezone. It should be called "Date Format" or something like that.

    Check that it is set as follows: 
    D M d, Y g:i a

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  • KartofelKartofel Registered User regular
    edited November 2003
    Ramius wrote:
    Look in your profile for the box below Timezone. It should be called "Date Format" or something like that.

    Check that it is set as follows: 
    D M d, Y g:i a

    That was it.

    It was set to "english" for some reason. I don't know how that got there.

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited November 2003
    Christ, duh. I can't believe I didn't think to tell you that.
    *slaps forehead*

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited November 2003
    It turns out there has been a bug in the code affecting date formats for quite some time now (something like 900 accounts were affected), so I reset the date format for EVERYBODY

    This means that if you had put in a custom date format because you are European or something, you will probably have to go and change it back to the way you like it.

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  • wossNamewossName Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2003
    Ah, that explains things. I returned my date format to normal, but something's still not working right: all the threads that were active today or yesterday have a "Last Post" date in the format "Today - 12:34 am". Did you hardcode that into the forum software ? I can't remember phpBB doing that.

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  • OrthancOrthanc Death Lite, Only 1 Calorie Off the end of the internet, just turn left.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2003
    wossName wrote:
    Ah, that explains things. I returned my date format to normal, but something's still not working right: all the threads that were active today or yesterday have a "Last Post" date in the format "Today - 12:34 am". Did you hardcode that into the forum software ? I can't remember phpBB doing that.

    It happened when he did that big upgrade a few weeks back

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  • SlartiSlarti Registered User regular
    edited November 2003
    I post here simply to test my date. Feel free to delete this...

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  • wossNamewossName Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2003
    orthanc wrote:
    It happened when he did that big upgrade a few weeks back
    So, does that mean it's a feature ? It's a bit annoying, because the "Today/Yesterday" thing is so different from my custom date string that it actually reduces the usability of the "Last Post" column. I also prefer the 24 hour format.

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited November 2003
    I was concerned about the Yesterday/Today thing when I put it in for that reason. I will look into making it so it is on by default, but disabled if you set a custom date setting.

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  • wossNamewossName Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2003
    That's a clever solution, thanks !

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited November 2003
    I think we should have the date and time part of the universal page format (Like right beside the logo), just for reference.

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  • OrthancOrthanc Death Lite, Only 1 Calorie Off the end of the internet, just turn left.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2003
    Paladin wrote:
    I think we should have the date and time part of the universal page format (Like right beside the logo), just for reference.

    Why? The clock is at the bottom right of the screen

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