Post Dates

Is it possible to have the posts date be displayed as actual dates? It's hard to correlate times when you have two posts that can be marked "2 weeks ago" and they're 5 days apart.

Once they get old enough, then we just get the dates, but can see the time. So looking at a thread, you can't tell if responses were within minutes or hours.

While not critical, sometimes it's helpful to know.

I agree. I'd really like to see the times as well. One place it's particularly useful is on the weekly competition, since that way you know to the minute how long you have to legitimately post results.

It seems to me that it worked this way a while ago (maybe a year ago or so?). I think I remember that the time zones were a bit confusing, though. I could never tell whether the times were based on the time zone of the poster, or based on the time zone of the person reading. It seemed like it was based on the reader somehow, because the times would change depending on whether you were logged in or not. But I may be wrong about all of that - I never quite really figured out how it worked.

Mike Hughey said:

It seemed like it was based on the reader somehow, because the times would change depending on whether you were logged in or not. But I may be wrong about all of that - I never quite really figured out how it worked.

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Yeah, there was an option to set your timezone and the posts would all show as "your" time. If you weren't logged in, the system would just use a default timezone.

Yea it used to be like that. I prefer the old way too. Vote 3 for this suggestion.

4too short

Five.SHORTNESS

6 ....

SEVEN!!!!!
EDIT: ZOMG! I was just expecting someone to post before me, and if they didn't I would put, "(Minus one.)" ROF2L!

9, I count as two people

10 or 11?, That sounds good

11
(This sounds like a good idea)

Actual 11th vote.

12 or 13
Good idea.

Bryan said:

Is it possible to have the posts date be displayed as actual dates? It's hard to correlate times when you have two posts that can be marked "2 weeks ago" and they're 5 days apart.

Once they get old enough, then we just get the dates, but can see the time. So looking at a thread, you can't tell if responses were within minutes or hours.

While not critical, sometimes it's helpful to know.

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Done. Thanks for the suggestion.

I just noticed this. Thanks pjk!

Ellis is 8, Feanaro is 9, Poke is 10, ConnorCuber is 11, and jcuber is 12. Next person, please say 13 so its not confusing from now on. Lol.
Nvm. None more is needed. Yay times! I think it should say how many minutes ago (up to an hour) next to the time.

Could this maybe be optional or only happening after 24 hours?
I liked it better when the posts said "11 minutes ago," but I do agree that this new format is better for any post a day or more ago.

I vote against this.

For those of you that haven't set your timezone, the option is here:

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/profile.php?do=editoptions

Thanks PJK! This is really useful for looking something up to find exactly when it was. Before this was very difficult.