Forum Date Format

Strange, I noticed this today as well, and I have found no way of changing it... perhaps another bug?

Why can't the colonials do things right?

Dungassin posted:

Just noticed that the Forum Date format is in the 'American' order.  i.e. Month/Day/Year.    Don't know if it's always been like that. 

Any way of changing it to the British one of Day/Month/Year?   

It is not in the "American" order, it is simply in the wrong order.

It was mentioned by Brian M in New Forum Bugs 12/3/15.

Using a different convention is not necessarily wrong, I also prefer  dd/mm/yy or  yy/mm/dd. 

The date format is set by your browser and can be adjusted as desired therein.

In case of using MAC+Safari adjustment should be done in Sys Pref.

I reported this right after the Forum update and was told to alter the browser settings but that made no difference whatsoever in both Chrome and Firefox. All other sites I use have the correct format. I find it intensely annoying!

Well it would have been fine on the eleventh of November five years ago.  

(if you don't find this to be a helpful post, please just ignore it)

Roger

Winky : I said 'American' because that is the way they seem to do dates.   I don't believe it to be 'wrong', just not the way we do it in the UK.

Erich : I checked this.  just now.  Mac Mail had short format dates in order Day/Month Year.   SoI checked System Preferences on my Mac (System Preferences>Language and Region).  Date format for Medium and long is Day/Month/Year, but for Short was Month/Day/Year.  I have dragged the month field to the left.   Then quit and restarted Safari.  Dates on Naim Forums still in wrong order.

As I posted in the bug thread, according to Hoop La you need to set this in OS and browser preferences.  Unfortunately it seems that you need to have both of these fully up to date and latest release and also Safari may have a bug here.  So, yes annoying, but according to Hoop La it's working just fine (for them)...

Richard Dane posted:

................ according to Hoop La it's working just fine (for them)...

Says it all really.................!!!!!!!!!!!!

Richard,

I have checked on the other 2 forums I occasionally frequent :

AVForums shows dates in either medium or long format as e.g. January 11th 2016 (i.e. not the format I wish it to in).  However, I can live with that as they are not using the short date format.

Asset/dBpoweramp Forums show dates in short form as Day/Month/Year.  Thus the above date would be 11/01/16

Naim Forums show dates as 11/01/16

All these examples are AFTER I checked the date format in System Preferences.  There is no facility within Safari itself to change the date format as far as I can see.

My OSX El Capitan and Safari are fully up to date according to the App Store (i.e. no updates offered by App Store)

I don't see this problem - here is a page I've just looked at to check...

After a bit of fiddling with El Capitan / Safari I have got date correct.

System Preferences>Language & Region

Mine had English in panel, adding English (U.K.) and putting it at top of list fixed date format after a restart.

My date format is OK (for me)  with dd/mm/yy

My format (mm/dd/yy) looks fine to me. Even if it was dd/mm/yy, I'd easily adapt and move past it.

Now if I can get the forum time set to the 'correct' Pacific Standard Time ....

Dungassin posted:

Winky : I said 'American' because that is the way they seem to do dates.   I don't believe it to be 'wrong', just not the way we do it in the UK.

Erich : I checked this.  just now.  Mac Mail had short format dates in order Day/Month Year.   SoI checked System Preferences on my Mac (System Preferences>Language and Region).  Date format for Medium and long is Day/Month/Year, but for Short was Month/Day/Year.  I have dragged the month field to the left.   Then quit and restarted Safari.  Dates on Naim Forums still in wrong order.

 

Is your  setting for language to "English" or "English UK". 

I use MAC and if I set language to English then date is shown mm/dd/yy but when set to  "English UK" then I see dates dd/mm/yy.

Regards. Erich

That turns out to be the problem.  I hadn't actually noticed English UK was second in the list.  Why, oh why, doesn't it default to English UK if region is set to UK?  Surely that should be the default setting for region UK?   Anyway, problem solved.