"days ago" instead of actual posting date

[jrobert]

Is there any user option to display the actual date of posting (instead of 'xx days ago') in the thread listings and on each posting's frame when reading a thread?

-jeff-

[Pekka]

Oh, I thought it was more helpful to have it like it is now :) Any particular reason to need to have the date?

It is not a user setting, so now we have to find out how does the majority want to have it....

[jrobert]

It's not significant enough to me to ask you to do any more work than you already have. But since you asked my reasons, I look for the actual time and date of a post for a couple of reasons:

I eventually start to learn what time of day other correspondents usually post, which can be especially useful or interesting on fora, such as this one, which have a multi-national membership.
Sometimes I'm curious about when it was that *I* wrote something.
I can scan down the messages quickly to find the ones posted since I last read. (I know the forum software provides some alternate ways to accomplish this, but sometimes old habits die hard ;))

-jeff-

[CoolToolGuy]

Pekka, if you're asking, I wouldn't see much use to have 'days ago' over one week - in fact, I could live with dates used before 'yesterday' - in other words, tell me hours up until it is one day old, then tell me 'yesterday', then if it is older than that show date and time. As jrobert mentioned, I also tend to note the time of day folks post, so '4 days ago' doesn't help much.

Another low priority, but since it came up...

Have Fun,

[tommykjensen]

Pekka, if you're asking, I wouldn't see much use to have 'days ago' over one week - in fact, I could live with dates used before 'yesterday' - in other words, tell me hours up until it is one day old, then tell me 'yesterday', then if it is older than that show date and time. As jrobert mentioned, I also tend to note the time of day folks post, so '4 days ago' doesn't help much.

Another low priority, but since it came up...



I agree with that.