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Configurable date format?

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wintermute23:
Just as users can set their time format to 12 or 24 hours, and the WPS syntax allows a theme to respect that choice, would it be possible to allow the user to decide whether they want the date displayed as month-day-year, day-month-year or year-month-day?

JdGordon:
where?

wintermute23:
What do you mean?

Where would they set it? Probably right next to where the date format is currently set.

Where would it take effect? Within conditionals in the WPS, just as with the date format.

JdGordon:
I was asking on which screens you wanted this.
in the WPS/SBS its just up to the themr to setup the code to do it. The 12/24hr setting comes from old code in the statusbar which isnt really required anymore and its very nlikely we add a setting for this just for skins.

I've had an idea for a long time for something I've wanted to do but had no support for... bassically configurable settings outside the regular menus for themes. This is how I would expect a time format to be done (if it ever happened, hich it probabl;y wont)

wintermute23:

--- Quote from: JdGordon on March 28, 2010, 05:52:59 AM ---in the WPS/SBS its just up to the themr to setup the code to do it.
--- End quote ---
Except that there's currently no equivalent of %?cf that could be used. The only options I can currently see are that the themer create three different versions, with different date formats; or that the user edit the WPS/SBS to suit their preference. Neither of these is as elegant a solution as making it work the same way as the 12/24hour preference.

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