Time stamp on posts (complaint)

It annoys me the vagueness of the time stamp on WF posts "4 hours ago", "9 days ago", "33 minutes ago" I like to see a normal date-and-time-of-day reading, (e.g. "3/2/07 at 12:45" or suchlike) so that even when it's hours or days hence you can tell the time of day it was made.

Wrong forum.

Your thread was started 4 minutes ago.

I like both.

I'm not sure which one I like better.

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It works fine for me. So is yours broke?

Off to the Help Desk. Whoosh!

An exact date time stamp would make my inevitable second victory in the Last Word thread easier to verify.

Yeah, I don't like the vagueness of most of the timestamps.

"1 hour ago" could mean anywhere from 1 hour to 1 hour and 59 minutes ago.

"1 day ago" could mean anywhere between 24 hours ago and 47 hours 59 minutes ago.

I think there's even a "1 week ago" timestamp.

After a certain amount of time, they change from "x weeks ago" to the actual time and date. I think that cutoff should be changed to one day or so.

vB certainly allows for a hh:mm, mm/dd/yy time format. This board just never seems to use it. I mean, we have the option to set our own timezone, daylight saving time settings, and starting day of the week, but that really isn't necessary with the way things are set up.

I think we should be given the option between having a timestamp or having the "x hours ago" thing. That might be something to take up with vB however.

I've notice NAHTMMM going back and editing his posts a few seconds afterwards with the "Reason for editing" filed filled in with "+timestamp".

I think it would be nice if posts had a good timestamp on them.

Maybe the Tech Guys could look into the options? Nick, O2C??

There is one after a while... at 5 weeks old, I believe. I can see about shortening that, but I happen to like the relative dates for a while. Maybe put the cutoff at 3 days or a week or something. I definitely do wish there was a bit more granularity on the relative dates though (1 hour 31 minutes ago, etc.) but I don't know if I can change that.

I think it would work best if there was both a relitive time and the actual time, something like "1 Hour ago at 11:59 am" or "1 Day ago at 11:59 am 03/17/07"

Oh the irony!

The new time stamping thing is cool and all, but...

Adjusting the time for the appropriate time zone doesn't seem to be working for me. I try to set my time zone to GMT -5 (US Eastern time), and all the times are one hour behind. When I try setting the time zone to GMT -4, they're all one hour ahead.

Daylight Savings Time.

Then shouldn't selecting the time zone 1 hour ahead correct it?

Cause when I chose the next time zone over it jumped ahead two hours.

Meh, whatever. I'll deal.

No, set it for your standard time setting -- the software corrects for daylight savings time. So I am set to GMT -0500, and this post will have a time stamp indicating 2:05 PM for me (even though that is actually GMT -0400). Computers are supposed to eliminate the need to manually adjust such things.

oy, did they change that after i posted, or am i just that blind?

I wonder if this thing correctly takes into account Arizona's non-compliance with DST.

EDIT: Hmmmm apparently so!

My guess is it plays off of your own computer's settings in some fashion.

Like right after you posted it I swear!

Daylight Saving Time.


Thank you to whoever changed it, it's a lot better now.

It was within a 15 min gap...

Nope, you set it in your WF options actually.

How do I make it go back to the relative time? I don't want to have to do the math in my head.

Nothing will ever satisify 100% here, will it?

Not likely, no

I hate the new way, put it back.