Could we have the option to change the date format to DD/MM/YYYY and YYYY/MM/DD?

Dread_Viking · November 2017

VARY iterating to having the american way forced on one

Mgghool · November 2017

Oberick wrote: »

Zerok wrote: »

Asmael wrote: »

Actually, I'd like to see the chinese format become widespread, which iz: YYYYMMDD. It has the property of being very easy to compare 2 dates and see which one is more recent. That might sound like a silly problem, but in terms of programming, you can simply convert 2 dates of this format to their integer equivalents and compare those right away with no need for librairies, breaking apart each part of the date and whatnot. 15th of January 1975 would result in 19750115, and 29th of March 1978 would result in 19780329. The latter is a bigger number, thus happened later than the former.

It's pretty unlikely tho, as most of the world is currently using the DMY format.

I agree. Although everyone is using the DDMMYYYY format, the YYYYMMDD format is more logical.

MMDDYYYY makes no sense but ZOS is a US firm so they have to cater to their US customers (which I assume are the majority of players).

Month day year makes sense as it uses the numbers arranged from smallest to largest, there can only ever be 12 months, while the days can go up to 31, and years are basically infinite. You don't read the time as seconds,minutes, hours do you?

Your analogy with hhmmss does not prove anything. It is in correct descending order. Mmddyyyy is not in any order and it is confusing. According to US date format (analogy similair to yours) we should write time as minutes - seconds - hours, it is the same “order” as mmddyyyy, as much as confusing and as much as unnecessary as US date format. I am sorry for rant, but I do few research projects with US companies and data managment is really painful and it generates lots of avoidable errors.

Rohamad_Ali · November 2017

victoriana-blue · November 2017

Zerok wrote: »

Asmael wrote: »

Actually, I'd like to see the chinese format become widespread, which iz: YYYYMMDD. It has the property of being very easy to compare 2 dates and see which one is more recent. That might sound like a silly problem, but in terms of programming, you can simply convert 2 dates of this format to their integer equivalents and compare those right away with no need for librairies, breaking apart each part of the date and whatnot. 15th of January 1975 would result in 19750115, and 29th of March 1978 would result in 19780329. The latter is a bigger number, thus happened later than the former.

It's pretty unlikely tho, as most of the world is currently using the DMY format.

I agree. Although everyone is using the DDMMYYYY format, the YYYYMMDD format is more logical.

MMDDYYYY makes no sense but ZOS is a US firm so they have to cater to their US customers (which I assume are the majority of players).

Depends on the context: if I'm looking at events within the same month, DD/MM/YYYY makes more sense.

Come to Canada, where people use all three formats regularly.

I'd love an option to switch my dates to DD-MM-YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY.

KrishakPanettier · November 2017

I vote for stardate: 95508.17

danno8 · November 2017

MattT1988 wrote: »

danno8 wrote: »

Lol this thread is hilarious.

People getting genuinely offended that other parts of the world use different date formats.

There is no right or wrong here, only what you are used to. I personally couldn't care less as long as it is clear which format is used. I think people should try to be more flexible in their thinking.

Incredible that date formats can lead to the kind of tribalism in this thread.

I don’t see anyone who’s offended.

That's because they have been removed since I posted.

TheRealPotoroo · November 2017

Greensea wrote: »

In the Achievements tab dates are listed as MM/DD/YYYY which isn't a widely used format, and I can't seem to find an option in settings to change it to DD/MM/YYYY. Would it be possible to have something like this, and YYYY/MM/DD added as options given that they see far more usage? It would be a small, but appreciated, QoL change for those of us who don't live in the States.

If not game Settings options then at the very least use the format in Windows' Region settings for that PC. SMOP.

SugaComa · November 2017

Oberick wrote: »

Zerok wrote: »

Asmael wrote: »

Actually, I'd like to see the chinese format become widespread, which iz: YYYYMMDD. It has the property of being very easy to compare 2 dates and see which one is more recent. That might sound like a silly problem, but in terms of programming, you can simply convert 2 dates of this format to their integer equivalents and compare those right away with no need for librairies, breaking apart each part of the date and whatnot. 15th of January 1975 would result in 19750115, and 29th of March 1978 would result in 19780329. The latter is a bigger number, thus happened later than the former.

It's pretty unlikely tho, as most of the world is currently using the DMY format.

I agree. Although everyone is using the DDMMYYYY format, the YYYYMMDD format is more logical.

MMDDYYYY makes no sense but ZOS is a US firm so they have to cater to their US customers (which I assume are the majority of players).

Month day year makes sense as it uses the numbers arranged from smallest to largest, there can only ever be 12 months, while the days can go up to 31, and years are basically infinite. You don't read the time as seconds,minutes, hours do you?

Month day year makes sense because numbers arranged from smallest

So each month doesn't have the 1st 12 days ?

03.06.2017

March or June ?

Faulgor · November 2017

You're all wrong. It's obviously DDMMEEYYYY.

The 28th of Sun's Dusk, 2E582

TheNorthernDragon · November 2017

Great, another trivial thing for ZOS to do, rather than fix the bugs! We need this like an arrow to the knee.

feyii · November 2017

I for one am used to DD.MM.YYYY, but much prefer YYYY.MM.DD. I also don't have a problem with the American date format, as long as I know this is what is used. As someone else mentioned already, uncertainty is the biggest problem here, and if you are uncertain about the format, dates with day numbers from 1-12 are just confusing.

To avoid confusion, a simple solution would also be to just write the name of the month, instead of using the number. If it reads e.g.

JUN 3, 2017 instead of 06.03.2017

or

3 JUN 2017 instead of 03.06.2017

the confusion would be avoided, regardless of which format is used.

Schemering · November 2017

indeed the one and only international standard is year month day; banks use it for decades now to prevent any kind of mistakes

JasonSilverSpring · November 2017

TheRealPotoroo wrote: »

Greensea wrote: »

In the Achievements tab dates are listed as MM/DD/YYYY which isn't a widely used format, and I can't seem to find an option in settings to change it to DD/MM/YYYY. Would it be possible to have something like this, and YYYY/MM/DD added as options given that they see far more usage? It would be a small, but appreciated, QoL change for those of us who don't live in the States.

If not game Settings options then at the very least use the format in Windows' Region settings for that PC. SMOP.

This. While I agree it is low on the priority list, it would make sense if ESO adhered to the date format selected in Windows.

Elusiin · November 2017

ArchMikem wrote: »

...y'know, as an American the reality of it all bothers me. Since I'm an American all these things are completely normal to me, even if I'm the actual oddball of the world. Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, Feet instead of Meters. Soccer instead of Football.

Even something as trivial as writing the date. Putting the Month first is just second nature even when EVERYONE else does it another way. Damn it America why couldn't you just conform already??

As a physicist, it KILLS me that we still haven't moved to the metric system.

Jade1986 · November 2017

Ackwalan wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

...y'know, as an American the reality of it all bothers me. Since I'm an American all these things are completely normal to me, even if I'm the actual oddball of the world. Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, Feet instead of Meters. Soccer instead of Football.

Even something as trivial as writing the date. Putting the Month first is just second nature even when EVERYONE else does it another way. Damn it America why couldn't you just conform already??

We don't bend the knee here.

You dont bend to logic there. Fixed that for you.

Zerok · November 2017

victoriana-blue wrote: »

Zerok wrote: »

Asmael wrote: »

Actually, I'd like to see the chinese format become widespread, which iz: YYYYMMDD. It has the property of being very easy to compare 2 dates and see which one is more recent. That might sound like a silly problem, but in terms of programming, you can simply convert 2 dates of this format to their integer equivalents and compare those right away with no need for librairies, breaking apart each part of the date and whatnot. 15th of January 1975 would result in 19750115, and 29th of March 1978 would result in 19780329. The latter is a bigger number, thus happened later than the former.

It's pretty unlikely tho, as most of the world is currently using the DMY format.

I agree. Although everyone is using the DDMMYYYY format, the YYYYMMDD format is more logical.

MMDDYYYY makes no sense but ZOS is a US firm so they have to cater to their US customers (which I assume are the majority of players).

Depends on the context: if I'm looking at events within the same month, DD/MM/YYYY makes more sense.

Come to Canada, where people use all three formats regularly. I'd love an option to switch my dates to DD-MM-YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY.

I'm from Canada too (Québec specifically).

Here we don't use at all DDMMYYYY. The DDMMYYYY format is mostly used even though I personally always use the YYYYMMDD format at my job which I find easier to work with (you can easily sort this format in a spreadsheet.

However, if I have to write a date in a text, it has to be "29 novembre 2017", which corresponds to the DDMMYYYY format...