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Non-US date and time formats

Score + 114
Roll20 uses dates and times in various places, but they all are in the US format, meaning e.g. month-day-year hour:minutes AM/PM, which is a chore to understand for anybody from outside.

Add an option to use some standard and European date and time formats, or totally custom ones. Examples:
- ISO-8601/RFC-3339 date: YYYY-MM-DD e.g. 2015-08-20
- RFC-2822 date: shortweekday, DD shortmonth YYYY, e.g. Thu, 20 Aug 2015 (can be without weekday)
- 24h time: e.g. 14:00
- time zone abbreviations: CET instead of UTC+1 (list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations )

note: this should be a user selectable option, somewhere in the profile settings, then the user selected format should be used in all places on the site
January 24 (6 years ago)

Super old thread. I concur!

Oh yeah, and still didn't happen. Though I'm pretty sure, most popular coding frameworks have easy to implement tools for locale handling.

January 24 (6 years ago)
Andreas J.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Translator

Yeah, this would indeed be a nice additions.

January 27 (6 years ago)

Seems like a decent quality of life change for those not in the US.

April 12 (5 years ago)

Agree, its confusing as it is.

February 02 (5 years ago)
Andreas J.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Translator

24 hour clock, I want one.

February 12 (5 years ago)
Matt
Plus

My campaign spans 120 players across at least 4-5 continents. Please this.

May 24 (4 years ago)

Edited May 24 (4 years ago)

Having a 12 hour clock, with AM/PM centers the culture of Roll20 as American. Other countries around the world use a 24 hour clock exclusively (lets not even get into the -gasp- metric system!) and show dates as Day/Month/Year. Allowing people to use the the time structures they grew up with would make Roll20 more inclusive for a worldwide audience.

June 13 (4 years ago)
Andreas J.
Forum Champion
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William T. said:

Having a 12 hour clock, with AM/PM centers the culture of Roll20 as American. Other countries around the world use a 24 hour clock exclusively (lets not even get into the -gasp- metric system!) and show dates as Day/Month/Year. Allowing people to use the the time structures they grew up with would make Roll20 more inclusive for a worldwide audience.

Very much. Cyber Killer in the suggestion's initial post made 4 year ago, states this as well as I can think.

Juggling timezone along with AM/PM becomes tiresome when communicating internationally, and Roll20 should also adopt an international standard to their communication as well. Considering the number of Streams, Community Roundtables & maintenance breaks that happens, it would really be best for everyone.

Wow, it's been 4 years... Seems like a lot of time (duh ;-) ) to implement such a small thing.

June 25 (4 years ago)

Edited June 25 (4 years ago)
Rain
KS Backer

Really, supporting ISO standard dates and time should be considered basic functionality.

If that is not possible, could there at least be some way to show scheduled dates/times in UTC? Same goes for 12h/24h time.

August 02 (4 years ago)

I'm 100% for this, we already can change the language, changing the date format should be a thing.

August 03 (4 years ago)

We just need one more upvote!

September 06 (4 years ago)

this could be a setting done in "My Profile" maybe ?? +1

September 10 (4 years ago)
Rain
KS Backer

Impressive how this wish for very basic functionality has had nothing done in five years.


September 12 (4 years ago)

I guess there's only 41 non-US users of roll20 who are annoyed by this.

September 19 (4 years ago)

Perhaps there are only 45 non-US users who are annoyed by that because it's so annoying others just don't bother to use roll20?

October 06 (4 years ago)

We made it, you guys! We gathered more than 30 upvotes!

+1

October 17 (4 years ago)

+1 please the choice of how dates are displayed to the user, settings in the player profile pages...  ddd, DD mmm YYYY as per RFC-2822

November 10 (4 years ago)
Vel'Cheran
Translator

+1 here. It's basic and honestly not very complicated to code ;)

November 19 (4 years ago)

+1. Please, it's just normal functionality that I'd expect from any program nowadays.

June 02 (3 years ago)
Rondragos
Pro
Sheet Author

+1. This shouldn't be a big thing to do... please give it to us

June 02 (3 years ago)

Edited June 02 (3 years ago)
Rain
KS Backer
I was about to post something snarky, but the age of this thread speaks for itself.
June 03 (3 years ago)

Edited June 03 (3 years ago)

It's hugely frustrating isn't it? It's not even hard to do, it just seems that roll20 doesn't care about people outside of the US. And since this came up again it's a wonderful reminder to cancel my subscription.

June 04 (3 years ago)
Rain
KS Backer
Yeah, realizing they just don't care made me finally look at other alternatives. I'm still a player in a game here, but I run my own games in Foundry now.

Good call, I got to give foundry a try before the subscription runs out. Astral looked kind of promising too haven't gotten around to trying it yet however


February 09 (3 years ago)
Ulti
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter

+1 please.

February 18 (3 years ago)

How in the world has this still not been added? 

So I came to the forums to ask for a "not including" option for searching for games, but seeing this I guess nothing will happen. Soooo.... What are the alternatives to roll20 again? because frankly this is sad

6 years isn't enough time to work out how to cater to the international community.

Do they support unicode in ALL text fields?

September 08 (2 years ago)
Ulti
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter

Would be nice to have.

Yay, 7 years, still nothing :-P. It's good that at least the thread hasn't been closed like many others.

December 18 (2 years ago)

Now that many of us have more Suggestion votes, I would like to plug this Suggestion!

August 16 (1 year ago)
Ulti
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter

Bump.

Bump

It has been years and still nothing, damn

Yep, seems the rest of the planet ain't worth shit. What a surprise. Lazy sods.

Suggested 8 years ago and still nothing?
... Damn ಠ_ಠ