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Date format for threads & posts

Hi,

Just wondered if there was any way I could change the way the date format shows up for threads & posts from US to European, ie from mm/dd/yy to dd/mm/yy.

I appreciate this is a US forum, and it's not really a major issue for me, however it would just make it a bit easier to intuitively see when something was posted rather than have to do a mental conversion!

Cheers...
 
That's an unsupported version for a version of VB we don't use - but yes I believe it is.

We use 3.8.6 - do ya see that one? I don't mind you looking for me. :)


It does work on 3.8 apparently:

vBulletin.org Forum - View Single Post - User Defined Date & Time Format Display


rsuplido said:
This will work on 3.8. Don't upload the XML. Just add the plugin directly using 'Add New Plugin' at the CP.

Product: vbuletin
Hook Location: global_start
Title: Custom Date & Time Formats
Execution Order: 5 - I don't know if this needs to be changed but 5 works fine on mine.
Plugin PHP Code:

"danfrance cannot see the plugincode as he is not a member"

Note that you still need to create the two user fields specified in the .txt file and change the 'fieldx' fields (I'm using field7 and field8 on mine) on the PHP Code (above) corresponding to the two field id's you have created.

Hope this helps.

I cannot find anything supported. Its a hack granted :)
 
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Rob will not install unsupported plug-ins unless we find it necessary.

I will try but historically it doesn't happen. Maybe now that we have a dedicated developer guy he'd be more open to it.

I will try, but it won't be now. This weekend probably at the very earliest.


Maybe the developer could reverse engineer it ;)
 
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Just wondered if there was any way I could change the way the date format shows up for threads & posts from US to European, ie from mm/dd/yy to dd/mm/yy.

I appreciate this is a US forum, and it's not really a major issue for me, however it would just make it a bit easier to intuitively see when something was posted rather than have to do a mental conversion!
Agreed. It's quite counter-intuitive for us Europeans. And if the day is 12th or less you don't even realise you need to do a conversion.

I wonder if the long format (dd-mmm-yyyy) could be used globally so that everyone gets it immediately. It's used for the user join dates.

Thanks.
 
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