What date was 1362 days ago?

It's kind of old thing, but does Boonex plan to change days count on the site here to normal human-readable dates instead of "1362 days ago"? Wouldn't be nice to see something like "23, December 2008" instead of "1362 days ago"? I think it's obvious.

I'm sure all dates are stored in Unix format, so there should be no known problems with that.

Yes, I am also surprised that Dolphin ships this way.  I had to make changes to the code to get post dates instead of ageing.  In some instances, ageing is good, like yesterday, or three days ago; but once a certain amount of time goes by, the ageing thing is bad.  My members don't want to pull out a calculator and divide 2397/365 to get an idea of the number of years; which would be 6.567 which still don't give the precise date.  Instead, give a nice date; for example, let the members know a post was added 12-November-2009 (not the date of the previous example, I did not want to calculate that much LOL).

If you google post date instead of ageing you will find that I complained about this before and there are others as well besides us.

Yeah, I saw your old post on forums, but it was little old (332 days ago :) so I didn't want to pick it up. It's not a problem for me to change it in Dolphin, but unfortunately I can't change it here on Boonex: when I see somebody's post, I would like to know less or more precisely when it was posted. User interface is the first thing we should provide to customers; a lot of even greatest functionality with non-usable interface looks sad...

LOL. I think it stinks also. But if you need to see the real date.

http://www.convertunits.com/dates/daysfromdate/

Enter -1362 for the days, click go and you get April 26, 2010

However, the Boonex forum should have post date; it is a better way to present the date information to humans using the forums.  We can easily see how old a post date is with a date of 11-April-2010.  And it is an easy fix if the Boonex forum is similar to Dolphin forum.

 Great! Now we should tell Boonex guys to use their API to convert days count to Earth dates automatically lol :) 

I am stuck in my ways.

I prefer...

April 11, 2013 MM DD YYYY format.
Fahrenheit instead of Celsius
Feet instead of Meters
Inches instead of Centimeters
Ect.

I am permanently stuck in US formats.

 There is actually a function in php that can get you the timestamp of any date using a timestamp and plain english.

Like this.

strtotime("-1362 days");

which will return the timestamp of todays date -1362 days.

But yea. I am sure they either store a unix timestamp or a MYSQL Date. Either of which can be converted easily.

Yes, easy enough to change the code on our forums.  However, I thought Boonexpert was requesting that the forum here on boonex.com start using the date; which I would guess would be set to the format used in Australia.  If so, then I second the request.

April 11, 2013  is still understandable and readable by anybody on Earth.

But... I guess Boonex prefer:

Kelvins instead of Fahrenheit

Ells instead of Feets

Palms instead of Inches...

:)

Fixed.

Thanks. The only place left is module reviews, which wold be nice to transform as well, I think:

Changing it everywhere will take some more time, we consider this change during next site update.