Ziv Grosu Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Turn Board On / Off with: Start Date (MM-DD-YYYY) & End Date (MM-DD-YYYY) or for 'x' days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cool Surfer Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 great suggestion. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett B Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 You forgot time, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyF Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 The only change that should be made to the suggestion is to use the ISO-8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince G. Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 From what I know being a military wife the YYYY-MM-DD is more of the way military writes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mert Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggi Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin A. Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TXM Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 DD MM YYYY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cool Surfer Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke37 Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 I just use 19th October 2008, much easier and quite impossible to mix up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReinforcedPanda Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 +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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke37 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Sure, that doesn't sound completely stupid at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cool Surfer Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 +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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziv Grosu Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 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 dateend date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsey_ Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I don't see the REAL point of this. -1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziv Grosu Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I don't see the REAL point of this. -1It'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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieTang Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 I'd do it manually, good exercise. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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