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on 09-11-2023 02:12 PM
Please could Three fix the confusing date format and sub-optimal time format in these forums?
For example, yesterday's date was 10/09/2023 (10th September 2023), but at the time of writing the forum will display the date of this post as 09/10/2023 (9th October 2023) after one month has elapsed.
MM/DD/YYYY is a very unusual, illogical and confusing date format, which is used by only around 5% of the world's population, and not at all in the UK where Three UK operates. It's is neither largest-to-smallest nor smallest-to-largest, and is instead half-backwards.
Most forums use 24-hour time, but these forums unusually use 12-hour time with AM and PM suffixes.
I expect both the date and the time formats are simple settings, which forum administrators have forgotten to correct. Please could you reconfigure the date and time format to DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS (24-hour)?
on 09-11-2023 04:03 PM
MM/DD/YYYY this is the US date format so not unusual at all.
on 09-11-2023 05:45 PM
I disagree. A date format that's used by only 5% of the world's population is very unusual, and it's totally unintuitive and confusing to anyone using these forums in the UK.
on 09-11-2023 06:51 PM
I must have spent too much time using US websites and working with US companies like Microsoft.