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Software => HFS ~ HTTP File Server => Topic started by: Martok on April 08, 2006, 12:08:09 PM

Title: Date format
Post by: Martok on April 08, 2006, 12:08:09 PM

Hello Rejetto,

could you please add an option to use a different than the OS's format for date/time? So this would be changing the ShortDateFormat variable?
Like:

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InputQuery('Change Format', 'Enter new Format:',ShortDateFormat);It would be nice to have HFS showing ISO dates and the rest of the OS is still in local format.

Thank you!

Title: Date format
Post by: rejetto on April 08, 2006, 07:23:37 PM

...and what about a simple check "use ISO date format" ?

Title: Date format
Post by: Martok on April 08, 2006, 09:45:23 PM

Quote from: "rejetto"

...and what about a simple check "use ISO date format" ?

This would also be possible (and easier to implement, i think).
Or another symbol, %iso-timestamp%. But I think a checkbox would be enough.

Title: Date format
Post by: maverick on April 09, 2006, 12:28:42 AM

Quote from: "rejetto"

...and what about a simple check "use ISO date format" ?

I agree.  That's all that is needed if you were going to implement it.  Enabling that wouldn't change the o/s datestamp would it?

Title: Date format
Post by: rejetto on April 09, 2006, 02:04:03 AM

it wouldn't of course

Title: Date format
Post by: ~GeeS~ on April 09, 2006, 08:54:37 AM

I've changed my O/S timeformat to ISO long ago. I would vote for the suggested ISO-checkmark ...
or better: change the HFS default to the ISO date format and make a checkmark for the OS date format for users who don't want to stick to the standard.

Title: Date format
Post by: rejetto on April 09, 2006, 10:15:24 PM

i guess more than 50% users are not interested in iso format.
would you say the opposite?

Title: Date format
Post by: ~GeeS~ on April 10, 2006, 05:29:49 PM

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i guess more than 50% users are not interested in iso format.

Probably you're right. I think most user even don't know what it means.

Maybe i'm too lazy to find out what a date notation like 06/04/10 07:15 means: june or april, early morning or evening, in which time zone on earth?
This article sounds very reasonable to me and seems not to be culturally biassed:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

Title: Date format
Post by: Martok on April 10, 2006, 10:16:09 PM

Quote from: "rejetto"

i guess more than 50% users are not interested in iso format.
would you say the opposite?

I don't know beacuse I don't know the other 50 %, but I think for those who know it would be great to have such an option in HFS.

Title: Date format
Post by: MarkV on April 11, 2006, 11:10:54 AM

I would like to see ISO dates in HFS.

MarkV

Title: Date format
Post by: rejetto on April 11, 2006, 12:14:36 PM

i was debating on the request to be enabled by default...

Title: Date format
Post by: maverick on April 11, 2006, 12:22:24 PM

If the majority of computer users used the ISO dates, I would say enable by default.  However, I doubt very much that most people know what ISO dates are or really care.  Everybody sets up their o/s with the date and timestamp style that they are familiar with for the region that they are from.  I, myself, don't use ISO dates and have no problem figuring out what month, day, year or time of day or night it is.  Date and timestamp styles shown in file lists may differ from site to site,  but I don't find that to be an issue.  Those dates and times are usually irrelevant to the person going over the file list to begin with as it is the filename that is important.

Title: Date format
Post by: jack_2000 on April 11, 2006, 12:56:30 PM

I think that there should be a check box
for iso-time-stamp on/off
and by default hfs can use the OS's default :)

Title: Date format
Post by: ~GeeS~ on April 11, 2006, 05:31:54 PM

Quote from: "jack_2000"

I think that there should be a check box
for iso-time-stamp on/off
and by default hfs can use the OS's default :)

:^^: I think we all can live with that.

Title: Date format
Post by: Martok on April 11, 2006, 09:58:15 PM

Quote from: "~GeeS~"

:^^: I think we all can live with that.

I agree with you: those who care can enable ISO-Dates, and those who don't... simply ignore it.