Custom time and date format

Eldenroot

It would be nice to have an option to set a custom time and date format for every user

12/24 time format
DD/MM/YYYY; MM/DD/YYYY etc

Eldenroot

Any feedback? I really dotn like the way how it works now - for old posts no year is shown (2015 for example), AM/PM is common for America, not for the rest of the world... some type of customization would be really nice

violetamon

and user's（Toby‘s） page ==>https://discuss.flarum.org/u/1
show==>Joined Nov '14
(no year info)

clarkwinkelmann

Aleram each language pack can define translations for the date, but they have no easy way of changing the formatting.

An extension could hack into Flarum's functions to change the formatting, but there's currently no easy way of doing it.

I think there will be changes to that in Flarum beta 14 since we're switching away from moment.js, but the general concept is still the same.

Most of Flarum's dates are rendered through the humanTime helper, which we should try to make extendable by extensions.

PS: I believe violetamon 's comment from 2016 is actually incorrect. The '14 part is the year 😉 But we have since switched to a more understandable format for English it seems.

Aleram

The topic has not received its continuation?

Aleram

clarkwinkelmann Thanks for the extended answer.
The main problem with the 12 hour time format (extensions: Draft, Calendar, etc.)
The 12-hour format is used in only 5 countries out of 197: Australia, USA, Canada, New Zealand and the Philippines, and is obscure to the rest of the world.