Turn Board On / Off

[Ziv Grosu]

Turn Board On / Off with:

Start Date (MM-DD-YYYY) & End Date (MM-DD-YYYY) or for 'x' days.

[Cool Surfer]

great suggestion.

+1

[Brett B]

You forgot time, as well.

[Morrigan]

Can't you just put that information in the message to the users? Seems sort of pointless to me but I guess that's just me.

[AndyF]

I can see it being useful in some circumstances ( not something I would want for myself though :) ), but (could be wrong here!) , if it is done as a task it will not run if the board is offline...

[Tarun]

The only change that should be made to the suggestion is to use the ISO-8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD).

[Vince G.]

If this will be included (and i doubt that) i think it will use the boards LONG date setting which you can customize yourself. Setting it to YYYY-MM-DD i think would be pointless since the US uses MM-DD-YYYY and others uses DD-MM-YYYY i didn't heard much about YYY-MM-DD

[Morrigan]

From what I know being a military wife the YYYY-MM-DD is more of the way military writes it.

[Mert]

YYYY-MM-DD is being used in Canada, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macau, Mongolia, Nepal, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden and Taiwan according to the Wikipedia.

[Jaggi]

yea YYYY-MM-DD is the internation standard. being brit i prefer DD-MM-YYYY but use YYYY-MM-DD as phpdocumentor uses to for reading my code comments.

[Martin A.]

YYYY-MM-DD is being used in Canada, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macau, Mongolia, Nepal, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden and Taiwan according to the Wikipedia.

We (as in Norway (maybe Sweden and Denmark too)) don't use that format in daily life, maybe in dead serious business letters. We stick to MM-DD-YY(YY), MM/DD-YY(YY) or MM/DD/YY(YY).

[Guest TXM]

DD MM YYYY

[Cool Surfer]

Can't you just put that information in the message to the users? Seems sort of pointless to me but I guess that's just me.

Its something like this. You set the board offline, tell some mods to clean up some spammers n search fir some posts n manage them or add mods which u expect would take 2 hrs. BUT you dont want to give them admin access. So you set the board to be online after 2 hrs.

[Morrigan]

Well that's well and good but providing them with that won't necessarily be accurate. What if you come across problems? You then need to change the time. How do you change the time? If you want it up after 2 hours you say:
Site is being taken down for maintenance and will be back up at (2 hour time set here).

Providing a moderator with access to the site while offline is perfectly fine without this sort of feature.

[henke37]

I just use 19th October 2008, much easier and quite impossible to mix up.

[ReinforcedPanda]

+1 for this feature...

EDIT: Adding on, I would like to see a feature where you can set your board to go offline at a certain time of day, and turn back on the next day at a certain time and just keep going. Kinda like automaticly shutting itself down at night and turning itself back on in the morning.

[henke37]

Sure, that doesn't sound completely stupid at all...

[Cool Surfer]

+1 for this feature...

EDIT: Adding on, I would like to see a feature where you can set your board to go offline at a certain time of day, and turn back on the next day at a certain time and just keep going. Kinda like automaticly shutting itself down at night and turning itself back on in the morning.

Ya like the BBC forum. They shut it down when they are off. Everyday.

[Ziv Grosu]

I just use 19th October 2008, much easier and quite impossible to mix up.

IPS can make a desicion about the dates & formats, for example if your date is:

20/10/2008 it means "20th October 2008"

if my date is:

10/20/2008 it means "20th October 2008"

It's the same. If you want to know how-to put it on your board, then I think IPS can make a new decision about "auto-switching" formats.

Or...

IPS can write above something like this:

start date


end date

[Lindsey_]

I don't see the REAL point of this.

-1

[Ziv Grosu]

I don't see the REAL point of this.

-1

It's an advantage for IPB v3, if you are an administrator and you don't have a time to take care of your board for some reasons , you can set it properly and then everything is gonna be automatically.

[TrixieTang]

I'd do it manually, good exercise. :P