How do I change the format of time/date?

[silvermane]

How do I change the format of time/date displayed? On phpBB forums it is done by php variables, but there are no such options here. I find yy-dd-mm cumbersome to say the least.

silvermane

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I'd love to know as well..... There's one poster that I know of who puts the date in the Faerunian calendar. I'd love to either do that or Stardates.

 

[Morrus]

You mean on the forum display screens? It's customisable globally, but I don't think it can be done on a per-user basis. At least, not that I'm aware of.

 

[Michael Morris]

It is possible to allow a per user setting, but it would be controlled by the rules of the php date() function. That allows for pretty much any format you can come up with. I don't know how useful this would be though, because I don't know how many users would be willing to read the instructions on that page and use them to construct a custom date screen (the instructions are clear to me, but I'm a programmer).

 

[Staffan]

How about putting some of the common options, like YYYY DD/MM, YYDDMM, YYMMDD, and maybe 1-3 others in a menu?

 

[Gez]

It is possible to allow a per user setting, but it would be controlled by the rules of the php date() function. That allows for pretty much any format you can come up with. I don't know how useful this would be though, because I don't know how many users would be willing to read the instructions on that page and use them to construct a custom date screen (the instructions are clear to me, but I'm a programmer).

I would be willing.

You know, a fair number of the users here are geeks.

Those that are bothered enough by the month-day-year format are able to make that little effort.