[wp-forums] Re: Post Dates

[Handy]

Well keen, I see the new version handles date/time in a new fashion.  :-)

Thanks!

On 11/11/06, Michael D Adams <mikea at turbonet.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2006, at 6:05 AM, Handy wrote:
> > However, if I'm really the first one to suggest this for bbPress...
> > well,
> > I'll just shut up and offer another round of apologies to everyone for
> > cluttering up the mailing list and offending multiple people in the
> > process.
>
> You're not the first, just the first on this list.
>
> My thoughts: whenever the user needs to know how long ago something
> happens, we should format it as "2 days ago" (or whatever).  If there
> are places where we don't do this, we can make sure to change them.
>
> In the post list, though, my opinion is that it doesn't matter when
> things happened as long as you know the time interval between posts,
> for which one timezone is just as good as a user specified one.
>
> It also leads to less confusion: "You said X a 7:35 on the 21st",
> "No... what?", "I mean 7:35pm PDT", "oh... what is that in BST?" ...
>
> It may, though, genuinely be a useful feature.  I am always happy to
> help out the forums folk, so if it is, we can implement it.
>
> Michael
>