Time/date display for comments

[sharpiefan]

Being British, I don't like the way that the date in comments in my journal is displayed the American way, with the month first. Is there any way of changing it from '10-24-2010' to either '24/10/2010' or '24th Oct 2010'?

Comments

[matgb]

Oh, wait. In comments.

I have checked, mine displays wrong as well, I'd never noticed. This must be fixed.

I cannot find it as an option anywhere, which suggests it doesn't exist. I will investigate further.

[sporky_rat]

I just put this in as a suggestion.

[sharpiefan]

Cheers. It's been bugging me that comment dates and journal entry dates display differently and you can change the one but not the other.

I'd've suggested it myself, but I wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something obvious. :D

[marahmarie]

Never noticed that, either, until you said so. US time on entries, British on comments. How...special. I just looked through the customization wizard and my layers (and DW FAQs and some DW Coalition documentation) and I can't find a thing to change/modify...I know on certain layouts on LJ (Smooth Sailing comes to mind, maybe some others) the customization wizard let you decide the time display format yourself...

[sharpiefan]

How very weird. I've got UK-type time display on entries and US-type time display on comments. That just seems all sorts of wrong, somehow.

I could change the date/time display format on my old Flexible Squares layout on LJ and I'm sure it was possible with other layouts too.

[marahmarie]

It comes down to (or wait...it might, but I don't really know) something that's set in here:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=97851

Specifically:

##===============================
## Display settings - text
##===============================

propgroup text_child {
property string[] datetime_format_group {
des = "Date and time format";
grouptype = "datetime";
}
set datetime_format_group = ["date_format", "time_format"];
property string date_format {
des = "Date";
values = "%%yyyy%%.%%mm%%.%%dd%%|2010.31.01|%%dd%%.%%mm%%.%%yyyy%%|01.31.2010|%%dd%%.%%mm%%.%%yy%%|01.31.10|%%mm%%.%%dd%%.%%yyyy%%|31.01.2010|%%mm%%.%%dd%%.%%yy%%|31.01.10|long|January 31st, 2010|long_day|Sunday, January 31st, 2010";
grouped = 1;
}
property string time_format {
des = "Time";
values = "short|06:30pm|%%HH%%:%%min%%|18:30";
grouped = 1;
}
property string character_before {
des = "Symbol or character to display before links in modules and before entry metadata";
}
}

set date_format = "%%yyyy%%.%%mm%%.%%dd%%";
set time_format = "short";
set character_before = "♦ ";

But my s2-fu is all out of whack so I can barely recall what I'm looking at there...I'm just thinking it's wrong somehow - but why it would flip UK users US-formatted dates on entries and UK-formatted comments and vice versa for US users is quite beyond me...I'm thinking it's something else going on that isn't in the above code (maybe...I just had to find and copy the code I know of that controls date-time format into one of these comments or I was going to rip my hair out for wanting to look at it).