Change date format in site-styled entries

[blue_rampion]

Title:
Change date format in site-styled entries

Area:
entries, site

Summary:
Instead of displaying the date in site-styled entires numerically, the month should be displayed as the name of the month.

Description:
Currently, all dates on site-styled entries are displayed numerically in the year-month-day order. But not everyone in the world is used to that order, so this can cause confusion for readers used to differently-ordered dates - particularly when the day is 12 or under. I'm used to dates being written with the day before the month, and I'm always having to stop and think about dates when I'm reading and remind myself that a date like 2012-07-03 is actually July and not March.

I suggest that dates instead be written with the name of the month in text, because regardless of what order you are used to for dates there's no chance for confusion.

Other solutions could include allowing users to set the order for all dates in their account settings. The benefit here is that everyone could have dates set up exactly how there are used to. But, I would imagine that this would be more difficult to implement and could increase decision fatigue.

Poll #11029 Change date format in site-styled entries

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 50

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Should be implemented as-is.
26 (52.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (10.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
12 (24.0%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (12.0%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.0%)

Comments

[blue_rampion]

Oops, I think I was a bit unclear there - I meant is as you view the entire site in your own set order, not that you set the order for your journal and that's what everyone else sees. So like, it doesn't matter what everyone else is set as, you just see your own preference wherever you go.

As for the language issue, I must admit that since I don't know much about how that works I don't really know how difficult that would be! Hopefully though it could be incorporated into the rest of the language translation that goes on when you switch languages? Certainly it would be best that people see the month name in their own language.

[azurelunatic]

Dreamwidth inherited LiveJournal's translation ... cluster ... but it is one of the things that is being torn out because managing it is a stone bear (no offense intended to actual rocks or bears of any description). So Dreamwidth does not offer the site in other languages.

[blue_rampion]

Oh, really? I had just assumed that they did. (Just goes to show how much I know!)