Join Date [SUGGESTION]

[Veegie]

I would like it to show the join date near a user's avatar again.
There is un-used space there as it is.

[shadowkhas]

I agree. Just the day/month/year would fit well. We don't need the hour/minute, as there was at the first setup of this forum.

[mtxboxfreak]

I would also like this back.

[RaVNzCRoFT]

I agree. Just the day/month/year would fit well. We don't need the hour/minute, as there was at the first setup of this forum.

It displayed users' join dates in the same manner each user chooses to display all dates and times. I set a custom display for myself, "M j, Y - g:i A," which shows up as "Jan 25, 2009 - 1:26 PM." All users' join dates were displayed in that manner for me. So if you set your profile to show not just the date of a post but the time of the post, which I'm sure all users have done, join dates will display times as well.

If there were some way to override this feature in displaying join dates, that would be great. I'm pretty sure SourceGuy said in the IRC yesterday that he couldn't find one, though.

[iBotPeaches]

You could easily do a mass SQL query to default everyone's dates to the your pick. Then put it back, and hope people don't change it, but I don't know any table names or whatnot. So I cannot help.

[FleetAdmiralBacon]

Just add our own bit of code there and a do a direct call to date([format],[time]).

Line 1066 in current SVN, file 'viewtopic.php'. This is in the block of code that gathers the user data for the thread.
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'joined'		=> $user->format_date($row['user_regdate']),

This uses the current user preferences to format the date. Screw that.

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'joined'		=> date("some_other_date_format",$row['user_regdate']),

Ie, month/day/year:

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'joined'		=> date("n/j/Y",$row['user_regdate']),

[mtxboxfreak]

Nice work.

I think the original format for the join date was eg. Oct 5, 2003 (or it was at least similar to this, someone can probably come up with a screenshot from the old forum).

So a date format of "M j, Y" should do the trick.

[SourceGuy]

Just add our own bit of code there and a do a direct call to date([format],[time]).

Line 1066 in current SVN, file 'viewtopic.php'. This is in the block of code that gathers the user data for the thread.
Before:

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'joined'		=> $user->format_date($row['user_regdate']),

This uses the current user preferences to format the date. Screw that.

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'joined'		=> date("some_other_date_format",$row['user_regdate']),

Ie, month/day/year:

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'joined'		=> date("n/j/Y",$row['user_regdate']),

Thanks for the help.

[Veegie]

Yes.
I am cool now.

[DrXThirst]

I like it. This mess is actually cleaning out to become very nice indeed.

[FleetAdmiralBacon]

Thanks for the help.

Don't mention it, always here to help.
e: Why does that phrase seem so... odd on the Internet?

[RaVNzCRoFT]

Hmm...it seems like some join dates run two lines now...that's kind of annoying.

I think month and year (ie. Apr 2005) is sufficient, don't you? Or widening that left column by just 3 or 4 pixels seems like it would fix it, too.

[FleetAdmiralBacon]

How about M 'Y? (Jan '09)

[WaeV]

I'm fine with or without the month.

[Cuda]

I'm fine with or without the month.

so just 1, 2004 would be good for you?

[Tural]

I think he means just the year.

[Cuda]

how about numerically? just M/D/Y?

[Win]

This is good. Thanks.

[Geo]

I think it's fine as it is now, unless anyone has some serious issues with it?

[shadowkhas]

It's good.