How to determine date of forum message posting?

don lowenstein · Post by **don lowenstein** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:50 pm

How is it possible to tell the date one of these messages was posted?

Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:00 pm

Look above the message

"Posted: ..."

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don lowenstein · Post by **don lowenstein** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:06 pm

The "posted" date on my screen says:

Posted: 1111-2323-05050505 Post subject: Re: How to determine date of forum message posting?

I see - this is translated to November 23, 2005. It was difficult to decipher at first, given the repeating groups of numbers.

Does everyone's date display like mine, or, perhaps it is a date format option I have choosen?

Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:21 pm

What I see is

"Posted: 23/11/2005"

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don lowenstein · Post by **don lowenstein** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:35 pm

I wonder if the formatting difference is due to a country setting on my computer?

Normally, I view dates as mm-dd-ccyy as shown below.

Directory of C:\WINDOWS

01/28/2005 10:58 AM <DIR> Config
01/28/2005 10:58 AM <DIR> msapps
01/28/2005 10:58 AM <DIR> addins

Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:43 pm

Maybe a bug in the forum software.

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hua · Post by **hua** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:24 am

You can try going to Profile, then under Preferences check the Date Format field. Mine has a value of

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D M d, Y g:i a

don lowenstein · Post by **don lowenstein** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:27 pm

Mine is mm-dd-yyyy

I will experiment - thanks.

don lowenstein · Post by **don lowenstein** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:28 pm

I changed to D M d, Y g:i a as suggested and now it works fine. My display now is:

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:00 am Post subject: Re: How to determine date of forum message posting

Thank you.

hua · Post by **hua** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 6:51 pm

Glad to have help