European Date Format

monsterfurby · March 29th, 2014, 07:04 AM

Just a small request: so far, the program only seems to display dates (e.g. in the timeline) using the American date format (mm/dd/yyyy), which I -being European and used to either dd.mm.yyyy or yyyy/dd/mm - find quite unintuitive.

It would be great if we could get an option to change the appearance of dates in the software.

Chemlak · March 29th, 2014, 07:53 AM

+1!

I always have to double-take American dating, to make sure I'm reading it right.

gandalfmagic · March 29th, 2014, 09:33 AM

+1 for me too

darloth · March 29th, 2014, 09:54 AM

I'd like custom date formats too - ideally it should support universal sortable dates: yyyy/mm/dd-hh:mm:ss

Zaphod Beebledoc · March 30th, 2014, 11:29 AM

Fifthed!

Nikmal · March 31st, 2014, 12:04 AM

Being American myself... I am used to the European format because of the Military.

The Army has always had it so that we made out date like the European's format (31 Mar, 2014) I just do it that way when I am signing things and even think of it that way. I have to force myself to do it other wise now.

Parody · March 31st, 2014, 12:41 AM

It's not a big deal to me, but I prefer yyyy-mm-dd.

Ideally the default would be to follow the system date and time preferences.

Farnaby · March 31st, 2014, 05:34 AM

+1 here as well

davidp · March 31st, 2014, 05:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Parody

Ideally the default would be to follow the system date and time preferences.

This gets tricky as we are modeling the Gregorian calendar in our in-game calendar mechanism. We cannot apply your system format arbitrarily to the default realm calendar, as that realm calendar may be some other calendar such as Traveller or Pathfinder.

DMG · March 31st, 2014, 03:47 PM

Being Australian, I'm in the same boat. We use dd/MM/yyyy here.

But being a programmer, I also use yyyy-MM-dd a lot.

(And just for nerd points, "mm" stands for minutes, hence the use of "MM".

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monsterfurby Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Posts: 73 March 29th, 2014, 07:04 AM	Just a small request: so far, the program only seems to display dates (e.g. in the timeline) using the American date format (mm/dd/yyyy), which I -being European and used to either dd.mm.yyyy or yyyy/dd/mm - find quite unintuitive. It would be great if we could get an option to change the appearance of dates in the software.
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Chemlak Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 432 March 29th, 2014, 07:53 AM	+1! I always have to double-take American dating, to make sure I'm reading it right.
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gandalfmagic Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 1 March 29th, 2014, 09:33 AM	+1 for me too
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darloth Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 14 March 29th, 2014, 09:54 AM	I'd like custom date formats too - ideally it should support universal sortable dates: yyyy/mm/dd-hh:mm:ss
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Nikmal Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Twin Cities, MN Posts: 677 March 31st, 2014, 12:04 AM	Being American myself... I am used to the European format because of the Military. The Army has always had it so that we made out date like the European's format (31 Mar, 2014) I just do it that way when I am signing things and even think of it that way. I have to force myself to do it other wise now.
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Parody Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Rochester, MN Posts: 1,516 March 31st, 2014, 12:41 AM	It's not a big deal to me, but I prefer yyyy-mm-dd. Ideally the default would be to follow the system date and time preferences.
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Farnaby Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 108 March 31st, 2014, 05:34 AM	+1 here as well
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DMG Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 195 March 31st, 2014, 03:47 PM	Being Australian, I'm in the same boat. We use dd/MM/yyyy here. But being a programmer, I also use yyyy-MM-dd a lot. (And just for nerd points, "mm" stands for minutes, hence the use of "MM". )
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