This is I guess a feature request and not a problem per se. I don't think this feature is currently available, but it might be handy for many users. Let me explain...
I sometimes want to drop in and check the forum for the latest posts. I know that I last looked at the forum N hours ago. Every post shows a date and time when it was made, however, that is not in my time zone and am not even sure of the offset in hours from my locale (and that could change depending on which stupid daylight savings time ruse is going on or not). So the current time stamps are just not all that useful for the purpose of figuring out how old a post actually is, IMO.
I would love to be able to scroll thru posts from all forums on the main page until I reach the "time since post was created" of N hours. If this "age" was displayed instead of the time/date the post was created I would have a;; the info I need. By glancing at the age I would know when I have reach N hours and therefore looked through all the posts that have been made since I last visited. Is there already such a feature?
Is there anyone else who thinks this might be useful to them?
I sometimes want to drop in and check the forum for the latest posts. I know that I last looked at the forum N hours ago. Every post shows a date and time when it was made, however, that is not in my time zone and am not even sure of the offset in hours from my locale (and that could change depending on which stupid daylight savings time ruse is going on or not). So the current time stamps are just not all that useful for the purpose of figuring out how old a post actually is, IMO.
I would love to be able to scroll thru posts from all forums on the main page until I reach the "time since post was created" of N hours. If this "age" was displayed instead of the time/date the post was created I would have a;; the info I need. By glancing at the age I would know when I have reach N hours and therefore looked through all the posts that have been made since I last visited. Is there already such a feature?
Is there anyone else who thinks this might be useful to them?
I see this sort of thing.
The relative and absolute times seem right to me. Or are you asking for something different?
The relative and absolute times seem right to me. Or are you asking for something different?
I visited my account page and found under Preferences the time zone. It was set to Pacific Time (USA West Coast). I did live there until a few years ago, and perhaps I never bothered to reset it to my current time zone Eastern Time (USA East Coast, UTC-5:00).
This corrected the time for me. But I realized that I need to be logged into see the correct time (duh!) and the default behavior when one is not logged into the site it to display all timestamps in UTC+00 time. Maybe this was what confused me in the past. I just needed to log in, that's all.
This corrected the time for me. But I realized that I need to be logged into see the correct time (duh!) and the default behavior when one is not logged into the site it to display all timestamps in UTC+00 time. Maybe this was what confused me in the past. I just needed to log in, that's all.
Yes, UTC is the global standard default timezone all other timezones are based on and is the forum default timezone if you're not logged in. In theory if you're not logged in it could use Javascript to ascertain what your browser thinks is the current timezone, but that's not how it works currently.
FWIW, most of diyAudio's traffic is not from the USA, this is very much a global community.
That said, fixing the way dates and times are displayed is on my own personal hit-list of things to fix on the site. We didn't get very far with having the developers we were working with make the kinds of changes we wanted to see, so I'll be fixing this stuff myself in the near future.
FWIW, most of diyAudio's traffic is not from the USA, this is very much a global community.
That said, fixing the way dates and times are displayed is on my own personal hit-list of things to fix on the site. We didn't get very far with having the developers we were working with make the kinds of changes we wanted to see, so I'll be fixing this stuff myself in the near future.