So, as per usual, I like to occasionally check the pulse on the community to make sure that people for the most part are happy and satisfied with the day-to-day operation of the site. For those of you who are new to the community, first, let me welcome you and explain how these work.
When I open the floor to the community, the intent is to provide a venue to discuss anything related to site operations, content, and anything along those lines. I actively review and comment on these posts, and if one issue pops up multiple times in comments, I generally run follow up articles to try and help address issues the community feels is important before someone decides to take rehash and form a spinoff. Feel free to leave whatever thoughts you want below.
In contrary to my usual posts, I don't have that much to say to this, so to both the community and editorial team's relief, I'll cut this off right here before it becomes Yet Another NCommander Novel.
~ NCommander
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Monday November 07 2016, @01:12PM
Would it be possible to also include the timezone whenever a time is given?
For instance this summary has a "@13:44" and it would be nice if it was shown as "@13:44 CET" (and the same with posts). ("@08:44AM" when not logged in, i guess that would make it "@08:44AM AST")
I know this is minor and you can set which timezone to show, but it is less of an effort to just glance at the TZ than trying to find out if you're logged in (often requires scrolling) and remember what TZ you set soylent to show/what it defaults to..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 07 2016, @01:37PM
Doable but it'll take a while to find all the places it needs to be done. Also, I'm not sure offhand how to adjust the zone name for DST where relevant. Might be easier to just give the UTC offset.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Knowledge Troll on Monday November 07 2016, @01:57PM
Please just switch to UTC - we are all grown ups here aren't we?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 07 2016, @03:47PM
Already done for ACs as of this morning. What zone you want your time configured for as a registered user is up to you though. The site itself runs on UTC, we just make allowances for people who don't want to math as well.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @04:37PM
It would be helpful if the timestamps actually mentioned the timezone otherwise people are simply left guessing.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Tuesday November 08 2016, @01:02AM
Timestamps are whatever your timezone is set to. For ACs, they're now UTC.
Still always moving
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @05:24PM
Even better, I am a grown up in the UK...
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Monday November 07 2016, @02:01PM
UTC offset would also be fine (in many ways better).
Or, maybe add it (TZ, offset) in/at/near the boxes at/near the top of the page (would also be nice to see when a page was generated)?
Still would require scrolling but it would be constantly glanced when passing.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 07 2016, @03:49PM
Cheers. I'll add it to the bug tracker now then. Might be able to get to it by this upcoming site update but no promises.
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(Score: 2) by martyb on Monday November 07 2016, @01:59PM
An idea I've had is we could provide custom timestamps, along the lines of strftime() or whatever perl supports. (Eg.: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S UTC might produce:
"2016-11-07 13:47:29 UTC". Alternatively, might have an iso8601 choice.)
It's a far-from-trivial undertaking as there are so many places in the code that output date/time stamps... some of which are space constrained and others are not. How about having a choice for Long format, Short format, and TZ selection?
Feel free to poke holes at this; still waking up.
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