Why are the dates of posting written backwards?

Thought writing the date was universal as Month/Day/Year. Here it's Day/Month/year. Why?

reply to post by jiggerj


Hi jigger,

As far as i am aware you can change the date format in your settings..

Much Love

reply to post by jiggerj


Something about European dating.

The format can be specified in your account settings (eg dd/mm/yyyy) along with 12 or 24 hour time display. It's very flexible allowing virtually any combination eg yy/mm/dd or mm/dd/yyyy works if you'd like it that way.

Originally posted by HumanPLC
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Hi jigger,

As far as i am aware you can change the date format in your settings..

Much Love

That did it. Thank you so much. I never bothered checking my date format on this because I didn't think I had control on how the date appeared on other people's posts. Thanks again!

reply to post by jiggerj


This website: php.net...

...has the php format code letters.

Click on "TOOLS" above, to open you Account Settings.

I use " j F Y" as a preference. It is day, month spelled out, and full four-digit year number. No commas.

reply to post by jiggerj


Yeah america and england have different date formats

America is the only country I know of that uses mm/dd/yy.

Sigh.

Following on from the date thing, can anyne tell me why I can't change
my timezone ?
I aint in Ryhad or Moscow ! When I change it to Dublin, London etc and press submit ,
it immediately refers back to Moscow, etc etc !

I started thinking it makes more sense to go YYYY/MM/DD ... because then they would automatically put themselves in numerical/chronological order, for example if you have files that are dated like that.

Maybe that's just me.

well its universal in the states only, the rest of the world does day/month/year ....universally normal running order that is

as the others said, change it in your settings

reply to post by ProRipp


Timezone? Have seen many others with problems on that.

I just moved from East to West Coast, USA....and had no prob, re-setting the timezone in the Account Settings.

(Oddly...I just went ahead and selected "GMT -8"....it automatically corrects for our "Daylight Savings" as it's called, here. Sometimes, if the programs aren't keen, I have to allow for the hour, and choose "-7" instead. Anyway, other countries call it "Summer Time", or some such...if they even ever recognize the silly and annoying semi-annual "change"....).

Helps if you are aware of GMT, and your specific timezone in relation to it...might help in trouble-shooting.

Originally posted by jiggerj
Thought writing the date was universal as Month/Day/Year. Here it's Day/Month/year. Why?

It's not universal.

In the states, it is usually month, day, year. In many other places it is day month year.

Originally posted by bsbray11
I started thinking it makes more sense to go YYYY/MM/DD ... because then they would automatically put themselves in numerical/chronological order, for example if you have files that are dated like that.

That's the method I've always used for database records and all software I write that auto-creates a filename based on the current date/time, because it makes a unique filename and chronological sorting is easy.

eg yyyymmddhhmm