Pegasus Mail & Mercury

It would be nice to avoid ambiguity between US and European date formats - could this be changed to ISO 8601 or, typically, 9 May 2007?

Bob

Well, lets blame Redmond, or why not ... lets all drive on the right side of the road.

No, seriously, sorry for being testy about it. The site is installed on a Swedish server, that had swedish nationale. But changing this didn't alter the presentations. Neither did changing the database collation settings. So somewhere deep inside the throat of .NET or SQL-Server, or even within the registry this setting grins us in the face. Also the guys at CS / Telligent haven't responded - so probably they haven't tested their product in international waters... as fine as it is.

The next version of this community will be in CS2007 and that one will be installed on an English locale server, I promise.

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Kind regards / Peter

If you go to your profile (click on your user name in the upper right corner of any screen), you will find an option under "Site Options", which allows you to see the date in just about any format you want. I just set it in my profile to the way you'd like to see it, and when I refreshed the screen, I see your join date as "09 maj 2007", which rather surprised me (the 'maj' part).

 

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There are 10 kinds of people --
those who understand binary, and those who don't

yep months and days are coming back with the Swedish text, despite the nationale of the server. Odd- isn't it.

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Kind regards / Peter

I've now managed to set the culture set to en-US for the actual web-application.

SQL-formatted values will though still be somewhat odd.

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Kind regards / Peter

lar3ry:

If you go to your profile (click on your user name in the upper right corner of any screen), you will find an option under "Site Options", which allows you to see the date in just about any format you want. I just set it in my profile to the way you'd like to see it, and when I refreshed the screen, I see your join date as "09 maj 2007", which rather surprised me (the 'maj' part).

 

You have to be signed in for your profile definition to be applied.

Bob

Peter Strömblad:

Well, lets blame Redmond, or why not ... lets all drive on the right side of the road.

 

You Swedish did it! in 1967 if I correctly remember it, only swedish people can do this kind of thing (here in France we would try for trucks first, and if all runs fine cars would do the change, but we don't need it as we use the right side of the road )

BTW I don't care with the date format (but I'm gonna change it to Swedish, good occasion to learn a foreign language)

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Philippe Chartier
French translation team leader

Can I can safely eat something that expires 080201?

When the EU considered a standard date format in the nineties, the simple and clever solution was to have TWO standards. "Reverse-ISO" for the best-before date on food and ISO 8601 for everything else.

Standards are great, everyone should have their own ;-)

Erik 

Since I in my youth really wanted to be a commercial airline pilot - I still drive in the middle of the road.

Thanks Erik for the insight on standards.

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Kind regards / Peter

Where is this user name? I just see the windows controls minimise, maximise, and close.

My date keeps getting chopped off in my preview view, especially when bolded. I change it, and next time I open Pegasus, it's too damn small again....

tOM 

The discussion here was about the forum layout not Pegasus Mail or Mercury

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Kind regards / Peter