The dates are formatted MM-DD-YYYY (e.g. the most recent digest for this instance had subject [Discourse Meta] Digest for 03-21-2015), which isn’t correct everywhere. I guess it may be particularly jarring on a non-English-language instance where there’s little connection to the US and its date format.
But because I’m familiar with code, I actually prefer yyyy-mm-dd
Using that format on a dev forum has not caused any misunderstanding that I know of, but that is likely due to it being a dev forum more than it’s being easily recognizable.
In any case, might it be better to have the format come from a translation file (if possible) instead of removing it entirely?
This particular issue is really impossible to solve without introducing a concept of “user locale”, cause dates should always look diff in the US vs Australia and Rust forums may have users in both spots.
Its kind of edge casey but I sort of support removing the postfix from that email.
I know we’ve been against user locales up until this point, but allowing a user to choose their Time Zone and date format is a very reasonable request that I think should be done.
Right but that’s only if user locales are enabled, which they aren’t by default. The party line is “don’t let your users change that, a forum is meant to be in one language”
Skirting the off-topic line … just a reminder that the word “digest” does not accurately describe what’s sent, especially for people coming from mailing lists who are used to list digests (which include all messages not just highlights).
Digest – You receive a large message containing many individual posts bundled together into one, at regular intervals, usually once a day. Some very active lists will produce several digests a day. Receiving the digested version of a large active list will limit the number of messages you get during the day.
