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Forum dates

Apr 8, 2007 1:46 AM


Don't know where else to post feedback on the forums in general. If this is the wrong place, perhaps some friendly Adobian can advise, and/or pass on to the appropriate destination?

Below is a copy of a self-explanatory email sent to the providers of your forum software, followed by their reply.


----- Original Message -----
From: [snipped]
To: support@fusetalk.com
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 6:34 PM
Subject: Date formats

Comment/feedback/question from a user of Adobe forums...

The web is global, but too many forums (and other websites) are made confusing to non-North-American users by displaying dates in American "mm/dd/yy" format. In Europe, Australia, and other places dates are written in "dd/mm/yy" format.

The rest of us can't tell if 3/9/06 means March 9th or September 3rd.

In our humble opinion, any company that is either international or that reaches outside its borders should only use one of the "international" date formats on the web. (Eg. yyyy/mm/dd, "05 APR 07", etc.)

We can't tell if this small but very annoying problem is caused by your software, or by Adobe's use of settings within it. Perhaps you could advise?

Regards,
[xxx]


----- Original Message -----
From: "FuseTalk Support" <support@fusetalk.com>
To: [snipped]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:18 PM
Subject: Re:(Case 3765) Date formats

Thanks for your comments.

FuseTalk provides options within its forums to display dates in a number of different formats including international options.

Please send your comments to Adobe and I am sure they could change this if necessary.


FuseTalk Support
support@fusetalk.com
 
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    Apr 8, 2007 2:37 AM   in reply to OzRon
    In article evaa4v$6v9$1@forums.macromedia.com, OzRon at
    webforumsuser@macromedia.com wrote on 4/8/07 01:46:

    > the providers of your forum software,


    LOL ! Adobe bought Cold Fusion / Fuse Talk, etc.. when they bought
    Macromedia.

     
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    Jul 31, 2007 5:19 PM   in reply to OzRon
    Hi Ron,

    I will forward your complaint to the engineering team that configured the Labs forums.
     
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    Aug 23, 2007 3:45 PM   in reply to Daniel T
    Engineering has confirmed that when the Labs forums get updated later this year that the date format will be more text-based so that this sort of confusion will be a thing of the past.
     
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