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Old Nov 12, 2003 | 11:54 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dan at WebFlyer:
If I can tweak UBB's code to display the shortened months (3-letter), would you still want to go back?</font>
I see you've achieved this. Thanks and well done! If possible, I think that dd-mmm-yyyy would be more logical than mmm dd, yyyy. If anyone still doesn't like the new date format, many international web sites use Japanese format, i.e. yyyy-mm-dd, which is surprising easy for almost any nationality to understand. Just an idea.

Also, is there anything that can be done about the time? It seems to be Californian time, which certainly doesn't suit all Americans, let alone the rest of the world. The global standard is usually to use UTC (also known as GMT) which doesn't even suit the British for six months of the year. Also am/pm may be fine for us Brits and Americans but not so easy for the rest of the world. 24-hour time is more universally understood.
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