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Old 04-03-07, 12:19 AM
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I miss absolute timestamps

The forum should leave the post time as it was
like 01:17:22 am

not something like 11ty billion minutes ago, 3 hrs ago, 4days ago
u leave the exact time people will figure out themself how long ago was that
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Old 04-16-07, 10:18 PM
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I miss absolute timestamps

Since about a week ago the timestamps have turned to "fuzzy time." I like be able to look at a thread and know the play by play on it's creation. I can't really imagine this saving significant resources either expecially considering the database probably still saves an absolute timestamp. Perhaps an option could be put in the user control panel to go back to the old behavior?
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Old 04-24-07, 09:12 AM
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Yea, what's up with this??? I couldn't care less how many days ago a post was made...I want to know the date and time.

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Old 04-24-07, 11:16 AM
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Yes, the new timestamps suck ***.
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bring back absolute time. fuzzy is horrid.
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Old 05-07-07, 08:35 AM
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Just another "upgrade".
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Old 05-07-07, 09:13 AM
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Date and time please.
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Old 05-08-07, 05:21 PM
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+1 for absolute time! Hell... even fractions of a second!

You should enable it in super geek mode and do unix time stamp. Hehe. But seriously, full date/time
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Old 05-13-07, 01:31 PM
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So, can we have the proper timestamps back please? These new ones really suck ***.
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Old 05-13-07, 05:09 PM
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As I started to read this I found myself agreeing with you but by the time I started posting I realized that it really doesn't matter if the post was last monday or last saturday because in the end the thread is a week old. I don't see the detrimental parts of it at all. I know some of you are control freaks of bandwagon jumpers but I honestly don't see the problem. Would I benefit from knowing a thread was made on May 12th at 2:45 PM over knowing it was made "yesterday?" I think not. Not even in the for sale section.

I just don't see the problem. Maybe you can all enlighten me on issues I might not be able to see.
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Old 05-13-07, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by phoenix7
As I started to read this I found myself agreeing with you but by the time I started posting I realized that it really doesn't matter if the post was last monday or last saturday because in the end the thread is a week old. I don't see the detrimental parts of it at all. I know some of you are control freaks of bandwagon jumpers but I honestly don't see the problem. Would I benefit from knowing a thread was made on May 12th at 2:45 PM over knowing it was made "yesterday?" I think not. Not even in the for sale section.

I just don't see the problem. Maybe you can all enlighten me on issues I might not be able to see.
I don't want to miss reading any posts that will be of interest to me. I tend to leave one of the tabs in my browser open to the 1st gen forum. When I go to look at it after a few hours, and it says a thread was posted 12 minutes ago, what does that mean? I don't remember the last time I refreshed, especially if I check several different forums, but haven't checked all of them at the same time. If I know the absolute date and time of the last post in the thread I'm looking at now, then I know what date and time to look back to in the other forums I check.

So, yes, it DOES matter. Bring back absolute time stamps...these "fuzzy" time stamps are totally worthless...might as well not have any timestamps if these are our only choice.

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Old 05-13-07, 08:44 PM
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MODS: Check this out. vB 3.5 Yesterday/Today Timestamps - User Option

This will allow you to give your users the option of displaying the date format as Normal, Yesterday/Today or Detailed. They will have a setting in their User CP under "Edit Options > Date & Time Options" called "Date Format".

As licensed VBulletin users, you can download that mod for free. Would rock the house.
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Old 05-13-07, 08:51 PM
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+1 for absolute time stamps.
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Old 05-14-07, 12:30 AM
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+10 for absolute time stamps
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Old 05-15-07, 12:50 PM
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Old 05-15-07, 11:41 PM
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Agreed with above.
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Old 05-16-07, 10:52 PM
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I changed it back, better?
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Originally Posted by BOOSTD 7
I changed it back, better?
Thanks. Check out that mod if you get backlash going the other way
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Old 05-16-07, 10:58 PM
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Actually... I think I liked the fuzzy time better.........



















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Old 05-17-07, 01:18 AM
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Awesome. Thanks Ryan!
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Old 05-17-07, 01:28 AM
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thank you very much
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So...would it be too much to ask if we could get seconds on the timestamps too? Actually, I think we need nanoseconds. That'd be perfect. Thx.

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I changed it back, better?
YES! Much better! THANKS!

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