Dates

Can we agree to use this style: Day, Date, Month, Year?
As in Tuesday, 10 March, 2009.
The mixture of US and British styles can be confusing.

I need a date on Friday, 13 March, 2009. Any volunteers?

And get a life, Platini.

might be best if you just pm'd velocio this query, think he's the one thats trying to add a bit of uniformity in terms of titles and dates...

I prefer mine dried...

Well, I for one agree. - with Platini (though also apparently with Teenslain)

and also:

Grrrr - slow fat fingers.

And get a life, Platini.

Guess it's the date to listen.

Guess it's the date to listen.

Wind your neck in, vampire boy.

Wind your neck in, vampire boy.

make me, roadie scum.

Baffled

Can we agree to use this style: Day, Date, Month, Year?
As in Tuesday, 10 March, 2009.
The mixture of US and British styles can be confusing.

I've found several problems and only one solution... though it's a bitch to read.

Issues:

• Ambiguous

• 3rd March... then someone bumps an old thread... this year? last year?

• Ride on the 5th!... of when?

• 4/5/09... US vs UK date... UK should rule, but who knows.

• Sorting

• What rides are coming up?

• Is there a way to view all rides as a chronological list... what happened last year or the year before?

• Lacking information

• 21/4/09... what day is this? I can only do Wednesdays and is this a Wednesday?

So what I've pretty much decided to enforce (and I can, as I'm the boss and I've got control of the thread titles) is the ISO date format.

ISO = International Standards Organisation

The format is:
YYYY-MM-DD

And to the end of that I'm appending the 3-letter day:
YYYY-MM-DD DAY

So you get:
2009-03-21 Sat

Which is pretty damn clear, sortable, unambiguous and gives you all the info you need.

And I'm putting it at the start of the thread titles so that the benefits of it being sortable work.

Thanks David. Obviously it's a lack of ambiguity that is needed.

I'll sleep soundly tonight...

2009-03-10 ftw!

When was your birthday, hippy? Mine was on Sunday, I was in Spain too... Happy belated an' all that... :]

I'll sleep soundly tonight...

I never do. I guess it's because I think about rubbish like this.

Nice tag - needs an apostrophe. Before the s...

Platini, you do raise a valid point. Glad to see your sense of humour remains intact.

Platini, you do raise a valid point. Glad to see your sense of humour remains intact.

Thanks. I have some experience of dealing with bewildered adolescents...

There's another advantage with that date format btw...

Go to the advanced search, and do a search on the following:
2009-03 OR 2009-04

And orders the threads by Title.

You get to see an ordered list of all rides this month and next.

I am tempted to make a magical button for that.

And it will expire... but here's an example:
http://www.londonfgss.com/search.php?searchid=2233431

I will offer very short odds on who is responsible for 'platinis a cunt' tag

Can I guess?

Does it start with 'n' and end in 'osferatu'?

velocio is on fire tonight...
first the date issue, now this!

2009-03-10 TUE
2009-03-11 WED
and so on.

i think there's something to be said about date order. are we any nearer agreeing "Z" vs "S" spelling? can we have a script that automatically replaces awesome with "531"? "cunt" with "taxidriver" etc?

i think there's something to be said about date order. are we any nearer agreeing "Z" vs "S" spelling? can we have a script that automatically replaces awesome with "531"? "cunt" with "taxidriver" etc?

Always 'S'. Except when it's our illustrious short-lived sponsor. They can't help it, being American...