Time and date format
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I wanted to start a discussion about the date and time format used in Vivaldi.
Places time and date is being displayed/used in Vivaldi
- Most of the panels
- History page
- Bookmarks page
- Sync
Generally the time and date format is being localised. You choose a language, and whatever time format is common will be applied. This is not consistent however. For example sync won't use a 24 hour clock, but always the american/british am/pm format. This is probably due to sync being new, and it's a matter of time this will get fixed and can therefore be neglected for the time being.
But what about wanting to use English as UI language, but a 24 hour clock and logical date display (yyyy-mm-dd)? There is currently no way to display time and date in ISO_8601, the international standard, which is kind of a shame. Shouldn't we be able to set this optionally?
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Ok, thanks, let's see if this gets implemented.
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I hope we can still "display" the localized one (which is dd-mm-yy here) at least for history/bookmarks
If ISO is used "under the hood", and probably it has sense, I haven't nothing against it
I don't like how "forced" sounds. xD -
@hadden89 Well, I said optional in OP
Also dd-mm-yyyy is a sane way to write a date, mm-dd-yyyy however is killing me. Whoever came up with this decades(centuries?) ago was an egocentric maniac, and everyone has to suffer from their confusion. --rant over-- -
@luetage said in Time and date format:
Places time and date is being displayed/used in Vivaldi
Most of the panels
History page
Bookmarks page
SyncI'm hoping that you intend EACH setting to be optional and independant.
E.g. Sync in dd/mm/yyyy but History in yyyy/mm/dd formats etc. -
No offense intended, but for a country that seems to value doing things their way a bit too much at times, the US sure is fond of old British standards.
I have heard several explanations for the usage. For example:
- It is in order of how they often pronounce it (but there are plenty of exceptions, e.g. the 4th of July).
- It is sorted by magnitude of the ranges (1-12, 1-31, 0-9999).
None of these make much sense to me, but I did not grow up using them. Bottom line, most countries just don't like changing their ways unless there is a very good reason for it and changing such standards does not come for free. At least the date (mm-dd) and time (AM/PM) thing is easy to wrap your head around... customary units is an entirely different matter.
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@monkeycontrol Well yeah, they should. Feature request is here: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/24209/option-to-change-date-and-time-format
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@luetage : I strongly prefer the ISO 8601 format, and if we are not given a setup choice, then ISO 8601 should be it.
However, both my msWin and macOS machines allow me to select my defaults for the whole machine. The obvious direction for the Vivaldi browser would be to use the formats from the user's OS setup.