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European Date Format

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monsterfurby

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Parody said:
Ideally the default would be to follow the system date and time preferences.
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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.
 
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". :) )
 
I'm american, but I agree +1

(It would be nice if it was configurable, so if in theory an internet game has U.S and non-U.S players, the player with their own RW could make it look as they want).
 
I don't need this personally, but I think an effort should be made to add a special case for the Gregorian calendar to adapt its display format based on system settings for those users who do.
 
+1 for finding something for this. I'm an American who works with people globally so sometimes if I see 04-07-14, I am unsure if we're talking about something in early April or early July until I look at the author and determine where they're based.

To avoid this, and to avoid being a hypocrite, I use the format 04JUL14 which eliminates any ambiguity on the order.
 
Another +1 from me.

Managing the timeline with a date format unfamiliar to you, really leads to a lot of mistakes and re-editing. At least for me. So yes, this should be a small change programming-wise that would be very much appreciated.
 
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