Make regdate display more convenient

[igorw]

Registration dates are currently dependent on user settings. In most cases this will be insane. For example:

Joined: Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:17:59 pm

The only relevant information here is the date, I don't care about the weekday or the second anybody registered. For those who care, you can always have the exact time as a title attribute so it displays on hover. It would make sense to change this to a language-pack based standard format.

Another nice thing I noticed at GitHub (forgive me) is the inclusion of an approximate relative time on the profile page (eg. viewprofile). Example: http://github.com/igorw

Member Since
May 24, 2009 (about 1 year)

Might be worth looking into too.

[A_Jelly_Doughnut]

It would make sense to change this to a language-pack based standard format.

This is how it used to be, people complained, and it was changed to how it is now (using user::format_date() with the user's standard date format)

[igorw]

I am not looking for a justification. I am looking for an opinion on how it should be.

[A_Jelly_Doughnut]

And I was only saying that the quoted suggestion was not how it should be

[nickvergessen]

On phpbb.de we have a snippet, cutting of the time from the stamp and it was quite often asked for.
I'd like if it would be changed, but I don't know how at the moment.

[idiotnesia]

I think it's better using short date format which can be configured in acp. It also need some investigation which places will use this short date format instead of the standar format.

[ToonArmy]

Date only on viewtopic/pms/etc. and full date time on profile.

[DavidIQ]

Date only on viewtopic/pms/etc. and full date time on profile.

That is exactly what I had in mind when I saw this.

[bantu]

Date only on viewtopic/pms/etc. and full date time on profile.

Makes sense to me. The date format has to be language dependent though.

[DavidIQ]

Would it be feasible to split out the datetime format option in the UCP into separate date and time fields? Although that might make the UCP more complex...