Icarus. Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 (edited) The date format has changed when logging a find It's now American format - this caused no end of bother and confusion at work when an American company took over and changed all our systems!! The new calender option takes a year to load too, and it doesn't remember your date for subsequent logs. What a backwards step! Can TPTB be persuaded to put it back as it was!! PLEASE! There was nothing wrong with the way it was. Edited August 16, 2007 by Icarus. Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 I was just about to start a new topic about the ridiculous new text size. It makes my table for a new cache look stupid. If i want larger text on a cache page i reset by browser options in fact my first reaction was that i had set it wrong until i went to another website where the text was so small i realised just what had happened. Quote Link to comment
Icarus. Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 Yes, I noticed the text size too - thought it was my browser. Caching must be making us visually impaired. Still, it's not as bad as putting dates in American format!! Quote Link to comment
+dino-irl Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 (edited) Someone is obviously fiddling with things again It'll probably settle down again but if you want to gripe somewhere it will be noticed then try the Website Forum. Just be careful with the anti-American comments Link to Website Forum: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showforum=8 Edited August 16, 2007 by dino-irl Quote Link to comment
Lactodorum Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 I've asked the question of TPTB about the American format dates and I'll let people know what the situation is ASAP. Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Google maps 15 mile limit wednesday night change time again. Pocket query page has changed as well. Wonder if the gpx files have been updated as well ? Quote Link to comment
+S&G.Davison Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 To avoid being too negative about the date format being in an american style maybe we could request that it is consistent across the whole Geocaching web site and for the day and month to be viewed in a non ambiguous manner. To be fair microsoft doesn't help with the date formatting seemingly changing it on a whim if you are not very careful with the coding. Different formats are used throughout which makes it even more confusing. e.g. Wednesday, December 24, 2003 which they have for the TB release date. Then the logs for TBs are "American" whereas the logs for caches are Month Day (if the current year) then Month Day, Year if a previous year. Sticking to this latter format would be good. Sue Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 (edited) I understand that this is an international sport, but why change the date to make the world happy? The sport started in the US, ran by a US company, based on US satellites, so why not use US dates? They pre empted you dino Just be careful with the anti-American comments Link to Website Forum: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showforum=8 Out of interest i wiki'd this Five countries in the world use the american format, 16 use the ISO 1806 one and the rest use the same one as us. Ive posted these details in the website thread. Edited August 16, 2007 by markandlynn Quote Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 I'd like to be able to choose the date format, but the new system is not really a huge step backward (granted, they're not a big step forward either). You used to have three drop-down lists with the month (text!) first, and the "placed" dates on the cache pages have been mm/dd/yyyy for ever. If you click on the little calendar you get something which most of us are used to from (eg) travel sites, albeit (again) with a US format (week starting on Sunday). Internationalisation is a chicken-and-egg problem for Groundspeak. 63% of all caches, and I would guess something like 75% of premium members and perhaps 90% of the click-through advertising revenue, are in the USA. If they want to get serious about making the site as global as, say, eBay, perhaps they should aim for a 2015 release of the Chinese version... Quote Link to comment
+milvus-milvus Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 What happened to the "preview in Google maps" option on pocket queries? Quote Link to comment
+rutson Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Oooo look, there goes the topic going off at a tangent ;-) Markwell... Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Yup its the usuall monthly ?? they have changed the website again thread. The date change is just wrong for the majority of the world. Most sites let you choose a preffered option but id guess the code for this one wont allow this so they dictate how it will be. They usually change things back overnight so id guess the text and maps will go back overnight the date thing well i think it wont change no matter how many people bleat at them. Quote Link to comment
+scanker Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 It really seems like they should be doing these little tweaks on a dummy site until all the problems are ironed out and not messing up the main site each time. Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 It has changed back again. perhaps for once they are listening to the non native customers?? Quote Link to comment
+Dizzley Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Yup its the usuall monthly ?? they have changed the website again thread. The date change is just wrong for the majority of the world. Most sites let you choose a preffered option but id guess the code for this one wont allow this so they dictate how it will be. This would be a great enhancement request. It's not impossible to re-code. It does seem odd that there's no test/beta site available for these changes. I'm glad the changes were rolled back, though it might be for some other reason and they may re-apply them. Quote Link to comment
Deceangi Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Due to site issues the coding has been rolled back to the previous version Anouncement by Jeremy Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Due to site issues the coding has been rolled back to the previous version Anouncement by Jeremy GREAT It means they are still going ahead with the backwards change. Quote Link to comment
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