Append date/time to all article preview thumbnails on homepage & other search/index pages?

[Trip]

Tim,

Although order and proximity of the homepage elements are pretty logical in terms of time published, what do you think of adding a MMM-dd-YYYY (and even HH:mm AM/PM) to each of the preview block elements for articles, reviews, etc. on the SNB homepage and any/all other main index pages?

I find myself every now and then clicking through to a cross-comparison or feature article, who's dates are currently not displayed on their homepage "thumbnails", only to find out after clicking through it's from several years back, and either much less relevant due to being outdated, or it's been superseded by a newer version since (which, to your credit, you usually link to from within that article). It would be nicer to know the date and time up-front, for easier decision making on which content to browse.

Thanks for your consideration on this! I do realize you are at constant work on the homepage and general site layout, making it more user-friendly with each iteration, and it's definitely showing!

 

[System Error Message]

I prefer the british format that is dd-mm-yyyy. You can just get a simple number clock already made and add it or perhaps add a plugin if you used a template and some can adjust to where the visitor is from or what the user has set.

 

[PolarBear]

I used to work with colleagues from all over the world, and found that a date such as 6/7/2015 was very easily misunderstood - does it mean 6 July or 7 June ?

And of course, users on one side of the Altlanic prefer MM/DD/YYYY and on the other side DD/MM/YYYY because that's what they're used to, and they both dislike the "other way"

Finally we settled on the ISO format YYYY-MM-DD which we found was never misunderstood anywhere. It also has the advantage that file names which include the date are displayed in chronological order (if the user has not changed Windows Explorer defaults).

The ISO format has many advantages, but AFAIK the only countries who use it in daily life are Sweden, Hungary and parts of China.

 

[Trip]

Good points - you could just do "DD Mmm YYYY" to keep it universally obvious, if not universally standard (ex: 7 Jul 2015).

Regardless, I believe the main SNB site is running on Joomla (if Wapalyzer is correct...) so I would think the facilities are there to make it happen, if Tim deems it useful.