Settings: date display option

[ninetydegrees]

Title:
Settings: date display option

Area:
settings

Summary:
We'll soon have the shiny 24h time display option. Can we please have something for dates?

Description:
Let users choose how they want dates to be displayed on the site (and in journals which haven't customized it?): yyyy-mm-dd (i.e. the current format), mm-dd-yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy.

I don't care about separators ( - or / or .) but being able to choose the order these are displayed in would be great. The current format isn't used in my country and I often confuse month and day.

Edit to clarify:

I'm suggesting it be implemented exactly the way the 24h option has been implemented: "this will respect the viewer's preferences in sitescheme pages, and whenever the journal owner has not customized the time for their journal."

Meaning that if someone's overridden the way time is displayed in their layout via Customize/Advanced Customizations, the viewer's own setting won't be applied. The same way you see one's chosen colors, chosen font size, etc. unless you use ?style=mine.

Comments suggest that some users would rather have their settings override all and any other user's settings/customizations. Discuss. :)

Poll #3304 Settings: date display option

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 52

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Should be implemented as-is.
36 (69.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
10 (19.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (3.8%)

(I have no opinion)
3 (5.8%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.9%)

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

Then I think the commit description is very confusing. I'll edit the entry.

[yvi]

Sorry, reading sophie's reply, I suppose I just completely misinterpreted what you mean when you say "customize".

Yeah, I don't speak Styles :(

[ninetydegrees]

Oh so the commit description was right. If you override time display in your layout, the viewer's setting doesn't matter.