ISO-date for postings

Hi, is it a big problem, to change the date format in this forum? This forum get read all over the world and there are a lot of different date formats. I think the most common is the ISO date: YYYY-MM-DD. Up to now 03-02-2004 could be the 3rd of February or the 2nd of March. Writing 2004-03-02 makes it clear.

Additionally I think it is a good thing, to append the time zone: either UTC or +00:00. I would appreciate if these things could someone change.

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specht said:

Hi, is ist a big problem, to change the date format in this forum? This forum get read all over the world and there are a lot of different date formats. I think the most common is the ISO date: YYYY-MM-DD. Up to now 03-02-2004 could be the 3rd of February or the 2nd of March. Writing 2004-03-02 makes it clear.

Additionally I think it is a good thing, to append the time zone: either UTC or +00:00. I would appreciate if these things could someone change.

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You can set YOUR time zone under User CP > Edit Profile subhead Date and Time Options. I think your advice about the date format is a good idea, although I may be missing some other options on the control panel.

Thanks for the hint. Yes, I found selecting the time zone already. But this wasn't my issue. It's only the little swap of YYYY and MM-DD

In addition to that I would like the option to have 24-hour format times, instead of AM/PM.


In a date/time group like:
03-24-2004, 10:40 PM I have to try to read all three red columns at the same time to see how recent a post is.


With a YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM format, I only have to look at two adjacent columns like:
2004-03-24 22:40 which I find much easier to do.


The ISO format retains the US style MM/DD ordering, but moves the year out of the way, by putting it first.
With the old US format, it seems really odd to have the year information stuck between the day number and the hour.



Oh, yeah. Please add a TimeZone Flag to the date/time stamp too.

Many computer systems used by international communities use a format dd-mmm-yyyy e.g. 03-APR-2004

jeff.saunders said:

dd-mmm-yyyy e.g. 03-APR-2004

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That is a step to the right direction.
Pro: It is more visible, what is month, what is day
Con: 1..12 is more language independant as names or shorts of names.
But never write 03-APR-04

I just found another discussion on the same issue: http://resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=874 . Interesting posting is #6 about standards. I think these people of the standardisation organisations reflected a lot about this problem. And the result is: YYYY-MM-DD.