Forum date format

Do you mean to say that today is not the 7th of Fifteenber 2016 ?

Debs

Tom, it is automatic depending on your browser settings. Check all is set ok on your computer and then in your browser. 

If you have MAC select English (UK) in Region & Language.

Richard Dane posted:

Tom, it is automatic depending on your browser settings. Check all is set ok on your computer and then in your browser. 

Richard I'd already checked that and system date settings are ok. Today is 16/07/2016. On the forum it's 07/16/2016.

So has the forum function to set date format been removed or am I just missing it?

No, forum date working here, and the date format on this forum web site is set by the browser you are using and NOT your operating system.

Correctly showing  the UK date format here.

Correctly showing the proper date format here as well; 7/16/16

Mine changes, apparently at random, from UK to US format regardless of my OS or browser settings. Life's too short.......

You're right Chris. Life is too short to care too much about this. I'm just curious.

I remember time ago I had the date in US format. I don't remember which one of the modifications I did changed the format to dd/mm/yy, the one I have now and happy with it.  I'm trying to change it again to mm/dd/yy and I couldn't. (MAC OSX El Capitan + Firefox).

For interest's sake I've found what was wrong. As suggested already it came from the browser, Waterfox, which was using US English as its preference. The strange thing is that I've only seen the problem with this forum, and it's only recently started doing this.

Anyway it's all working correctly now and thank you for the comments.

Hopefully it will survive today's forum maintenance

I use Firefox as my browser for accessing the Forum.

It only seems to offer "English" as a language, not US English, nor UK English, nor any other form of English.

I also can't see any other way of changing the Date Format to the British way of DD/MM/YYYY.

Anybody able to help ?

Don, I also use Firefox. Forum date here is DD/MM/YY.

C.

Hmmm.......  thanks Chris

Definitely mm/dd/yy on my version of the Forum. Looks as if there is more to this than Hoopla is willing to admit ...........

Don't know if this helps: I'm using an old MacBook. In the 'Date and Time' in 'System Preferences', I've selected 'Apple Europe' time. Apologies if this has been mentioned before or you are not using Apple, Don. Have also ticked 'update automatically'

Chris

Christopher_M posted:

Don't know if this helps: I'm using an old MacBook. In the 'Date and Time' in 'System Preferences', I've selected 'Apple Europe' time. Apologies if this has been mentioned before or you are not using Apple, Don. Have also ticked 'update automatically'

Chris

I'm using a Macbook, and have recently tried selecting Europe Time [from US] in the system preferences but doing so didn't make any difference, the dates on the naim forum remain on MM/DD/Year : (

Debs

IBM Think-Pad; Windows XP Professional; Firefox

Every setting I can find is set to English UK (rather than English US)

I am still "blessed" with this mm/dd/yy format on this American hosted British forum.

It's a joke.

Sounds like I'm the lucky one.

Scratching my head to what is happening here for some people.. Setting the date format on the browser to dd/MM/yy and with iOS set it at the system level.. and the browser displays and formats dates as instructed by the browser/iPad . All working here on Safari and Internet Explorer. By default however on my Mac and PC just setting British settings at the OS does not instruct the browser to format dates in the appropriate way.. This happens on many sites, not just this one, and has nothing to do with where the site is hosted from. It's all to do with default settings in the user's browser...unless they change them or even possibly they are using a faulty browser.. Perhaps some people don't realize a lot of how data is presented by the browser is down to the browser and NOT the web server.

Getting out my crystal ball I predict that in 18 days everyone's dates will show correctly regardless of their computer, OS, ISP, browser or system preferences. 

For a day anyway. This phenomenon happens twelve days a year.

I never really noticed before but here we've got x2 Macs which are both showing US format forum dates (even though one is set for UK and the other US region) and one iOS device shows UK date format. Just out of curiosity I had a quick poke around on one of the Macs and couldn't figure out why it's displaying US dates. A little bit strange but it doesn't worry me. All of our machines started life in the US so I wonder if there could be some additional setting (beyond the region/language) buried deep that's stayed set whenever the OS was updated. Dunno ...