+BigFurryMonster Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Is there an option to set the time display on the boards to standard international time display format? E.g. 20:00 instead of 8:00 PM ? This page describes the standard: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html If not, why not? Thx, BFM Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 On the Board Settings Screen of your user control panel, you can adjust the forums display time to your local timezone, and check a box for automatically adjusting to Daylight Savings Time/Summer Time. But no option is given to display the time in 24 hour/military format. This may be a limitation of the forum software. You could ask over at the Invision Power Board forums. Link to comment
+Geofellas Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 If not, why not? Because the software is designed by the same people who think that MM/DD/YYYY is a sensible format for dates Link to comment
+BigFurryMonster Posted December 4, 2006 Author Share Posted December 4, 2006 Ouch. Did anyone tell them that we have a world-wide standard for such matters? Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 (edited) You probably use the metric system, also. Edited December 4, 2006 by sbell111 Link to comment
+BigFurryMonster Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 Yes, that's another innovative thing that I wanted to talk to you guys about... some messages on gc.com or on the forums still deal with "Miles", "Inches" and so on... A moderator called Napoleon decided around 1810 to changes all this in my region ... actually, it's really easy ... now if we adopted this worldwide ... oh, wait, we actually have ..! Link to comment
+Right Wing Wacko Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them! Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Yes, that's another innovative thing that I wanted to talk to you guys about... some messages on gc.com or on the forums still deal with "Miles", "Inches" and so on...A moderator called Napoleon decided around 1810 to changes all this in my region ... actually, it's really easy ... now if we adopted this worldwide ... oh, wait, we actually have ..! If you had adopted it worldwide, we wouldn't be having this conversation, now would we? My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it! Link to comment
BRTango Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Yes, that's another innovative thing that I wanted to talk to you guys about... some messages on gc.com or on the forums still deal with "Miles", "Inches" and so on...A moderator called Napoleon decided around 1810 to changes all this in my region ... actually, it's really easy ... now if we adopted this worldwide ... oh, wait, we actually have ..! If you had adopted it worldwide, we wouldn't be having this conversation, now would we? My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it! Link to comment
+Allen_L Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 (edited) My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it! My truck gets 40,322 rods to the hogshead and I like that better. Edited December 5, 2006 by AllenLacy Link to comment
+The Cheeseheads Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 On the Board Settings Screen of your user control panel, you can adjust the forums display time to your local timezone, and check a box for automatically adjusting to Daylight Savings Time/Summer Time. But no option is given to display the time in 24 hour/military format. This may be a limitation of the forum software. You could ask over at the Invision Power Board forums. Invision Power Board has a global setting for the date and time display format which can only be set by the board admin. Whatever format is entered there applies to everyone; there's no individual settings available. Perhaps one of the Greasemonkey geniuses around here could come up with a replacement script for Firefox... Link to comment
+BalkanSabranje Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Not that this and things like that haven't been discussed before: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=120932 No change since, halas. Link to comment
+tozainamboku Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 (edited) Yes, that's another innovative thing that I wanted to talk to you guys about... some messages on gc.com or on the forums still deal with "Miles", "Inches" and so on... A moderator called Napoleon decided around 1810 to changes all this in my region ... actually, it's really easy ... now if we adopted this worldwide ... oh, wait, we actually have ..! The United States adopted the Metric System in 1866 and in since 1893 has defined all the English units in terms of their metric equivalents. So by law a mile is exactly 1609.344 meters. It shouldn't be real hard for you to use a calculator to convert. My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it! My truck gets 40,322 rods to the hogshead and I like that better. My hybrid Prius gets 1,000,000 rods ber hogshead. Edited December 5, 2006 by tozainamboku Link to comment
+Kryten Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 My hybrid Prius gets 1,000,000 rods ber hogshead. Bu how fast can it go, in furlongs per fortnight of course. Link to comment
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