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After importing from phpBB3 - Timestamps only show month and year
unixhero
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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).
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x00
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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 - 7:23PMfor the the current year it will format
Aug 2 - 7:23PMgrep is your friend.
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I think @x00 or @peregrine are the guys who can help best
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this sound more like the output format, which can be set. Check in the database to see if you are missing that data.
grep is your friend.
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
Oh, good, then you can show the Url of that discussion thread.
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in conf/locale.php put the lines
this will output formats like
Aug 2, 2004 - 7:23PMfor the the current year it will format
Aug 2 - 7:23PMgrep is your friend.
Sure, it's here: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/20963
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.
grep is your friend.
sorry that should be
$Definition['Date.DefaultDayFormat'] = '%b %e - %l:%M%p';grep is your friend.
Yes I realize this in hinsight.
To answer your question:
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.
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 :-)
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