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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It would be really good if there were a configuration parameter for this site to display dates, such as on the Results Status page, in either of the logical formats (dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd), rather than only mm/dd/yy format.
It would also be really good if there were a configuration parameter for displaying dates/times in local time. The pop-up when you click on the "UTC" link shows the current time in both UTC and local, so the site even has the code already present to convert to local time, but the pages don't display it! |
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Former Member
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Hi Kremmen,
No, we do not have configurable dates (yet). But you can set your time zone in My Forum Profile - Change My Information - Time Zone. It lacks Daylight Saving Time so I change my Time Zone twice a year. Lawrence |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
It would be really good if there were a configuration parameter for this site to display dates, such as on the Results Status page, in either of the logical formats (dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd), rather than only mm/dd/yy format. It would also be really good if there were a configuration parameter for displaying dates/times in local time. The pop-up when you click on the "UTC" link shows the current time in both UTC and local, so the site even has the code already present to convert to local time, but the pages don't display it! WYSIWYG. I think getting the Result Status page with additional formatting for the date would increase the server burden and cause support communication issues. The UTC and mm/dd/yy is important so that when discussing problems with technical support, a problem can be pinpointed to a time. If you past a quorum or a result in a post that has a problem, the times that would show would not equal the times of the database which are strictly UTC.
WCG
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Former Member
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But you can set your time zone in My Forum Profile - Change My Information - Time Zone. That exists for this part of the site, the Forums only. It doesn't exist for the main part of the site and the main part of the site doesn't use the setting a user makes in their Forums profile. Then Sekerob said: WYSIWYG. I think getting the Result Status page with additional formatting for the date would increase the server burden and cause support communication issues The results page is a secure page with no-cache headers, so it gets generated by the web server every single time without any chance of caching. The increased server burden of displaying time as local would be negligible. The support impact would also be minor. Yes, it's sensible to use one standard timezone for all problem reporting and support discussions. ... That doesn't mean it's necessary to have that as the only timezone which the data can ever be viewed in. I wasn't suggesting that the current default be removed, simply that an option be created, just as the forums section has, whereby we could get view data in a more convenient way. |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
If people are allowed the local date/time format to be selected, they are bound to start pasting results and quorums with those.
----------------------------------------The extra server burden would come from having to fetch personal preferences from the member profile. Not going to opinionate if that is negligible, particular because it's not cached. We'll see if it makes it to the To Do list of changes.
WCG
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Former Member
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I like UTC. Local time is simply a headache.
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