After importing from phpBB3 - Timestamps only show month and year

unixhero

Hi

I successfully imported a forum database from phpBB3 to VanillaForums.
I have a question regarding timestamps, all of my old posts show $Month $Year instead of the full time and date, as they did
in phpBB3. So a post from 2004 says September 2004 instead of 16:31 10.09.2004 (or similar).

I have seen a similar support request about this in the forums, but that wasn't resolved (I think).

x00

in conf/locale.php put the lines

$Definition['Date.DefaultDayFormat'] = '%b %e - %l:%M%p';
$Definition['Date.DefaultYearFormat'] = '%b %e, %Y - %l:%M%p';
$Definition['Date.DefaultFormat'] = '%b %e, %Y - %l:%M%p';

this will output formats like

Aug 2, 2004 - 7:23PM

for the the current year it will format

Aug 2 - 7:23PM

x00

sorry that should be

$Definition['Date.DefaultDayFormat'] = '%b %e - %l:%M%p';

422

I think @x00 or @peregrine are the guys who can help best

x00

this sound more like the output format, which can be set. Check in the database to see if you are missing that data.

unixhero

The database has all the data, if I look at a post, it has this timestamp in the database, "2004-08-06 07:23:32" but is only reported in the forum as "August, 2004".

Any clues as to where can the output format be set?
theme: default
version: 2.0.18.4

UnderDog

unixhero said:
I have seen a similar support request about this in the forums, but that wasn't resolved (I think).

Oh, good, then you can show the Url of that discussion thread.

x00

in conf/locale.php put the lines

$Definition['Date.DefaultDayFormat'] = '%b %e - %l:%M%p';
$Definition['Date.DefaultYearFormat'] = '%b %e, %Y - %l:%M%p';
$Definition['Date.DefaultFormat'] = '%b %e, %Y - %l:%M%p';

this will output formats like

Aug 2, 2004 - 7:23PM

for the the current year it will format

Aug 2 - 7:23PM

unixhero

UnderDog said:

unixhero said:
I have seen a similar support request about this in the forums, but that wasn't resolved (I think).

Oh, good, then you can show the Url of that discussion thread.

Sure, it's here: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/20963

x00

This not really anything to do phpBB import

The format that they want to change this the default behaviour, and I’d say it is superior.

Who the hell cares if it was posted in 07:23:32 back in August 8 2004?

Of course there are exceptions, but it is down to personal preference really.

x00

sorry that should be

$Definition['Date.DefaultDayFormat'] = '%b %e - %l:%M%p';

unixhero

x00 said:
This not really anything to do phpBB import

The format that they want to change this the default behaviour, and I’d say it is superior.

Who the hell cares if it was posted in 07:23:32 back in August 8 2004?

Of course there are exceptions, but it is down to personal preference really.

Yes I realize this in hinsight.

To answer your question:

Who the hell cares if it was posted in 07:23:32 back in August 8 2004?

Absolutely all of my users. Precision is key! It starts to matter when you use the forum as a historical record. Or when your users becomes so involved that the forum becomes a historical record.

UnderDog

Ok, this has to do with how the dates are presented, now I get it :-)

If nothing is wrong in the database, like I thought before, focus on the difference between the recent dates and the really old dates.

You either see 'August 6' (for a recent date) or 'September 2009' for a really old date.

There are a couple of threads regarding how that date is shown, try to find them here on the forum :-)