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  1. LTLakerFan

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    He's baaaaack! That would be me with another question / problem following the solution to my concern over the smileys .... thanks very much!

    This one has me even more baffled. Seems the early threads and posts in Lakers Ball had day & date which is normal. EVERY forum does this. Needs this. Then at some point it SEEMS to have become simply Monday - Sunday (day of week) and time of day. I mentioned it once in my first couple of days and Barns or someone said something about "space being a consideration". I don't follow, as if needed, smaller type could be used.

    Some of these threads will grow to be weeks, then months or even years long. Date reference becomes critical and absolutely necessary. What would the epic "Bynum Will Never Be Special" thread have been like without seeing the exact dates people said things in there?

    Are we going to get our dates back soon, hopefully? Am I missing something?

    Thanks
     
    LTLakerFan, Oct 12, 2014
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    Are you sure? There are posts that say "October 1st" and "October 2nd" - at least from the menu. I think it uses day of week for the current week and date prior to that.
     
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    Well, that's what I'm wondering and I think I asked that in that first inquiry..... does the current week (starting on which day of the week?) (or is it the 1st 7 days from time of post?) only have posts dated as to the day of week and time, and then after one week has elapsed those posts will be assigned actual dates? Seems kind of clunky, no offense anyone, but at least after a week dates will be there?

    If someone explained that to me earlier I must have missed it.....apologies
     
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    Perhaps someone else can answer more authoritatively, but I'm saying that there are already posts that have dates.
    Today is today.
    Yesterday is Saturday...for one week FROM TODAY.
    Then dates.

    It's the same as "X commented on your post 13 minutes ago" then "Today at 11:05" then "October 3rd" (which this site does, so does FB, for instance).
     
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    Dates follow a standard that has been adopted pretty much everywhere (FB, Google, Twitter, etc.). I think you have a much better sense as to when a post was made if it says something along the lines of "5 minutes ago" as opposed to "10/12/2014 at 5:51 pm". If I see "a moment ago", I know immediately that the post was made at this moment.

    The time is also updated "live" by javascript so lets say someone made a post a minute ago, and you scroll down the page. As you're reading the posts, it takes you 5 minutes to get to the most recent post. That time will change to "6 minutes ago".

    After 6 days, the times change into dates.
     
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    Got it.... thanks Guys!
     
    LTLakerFan, Oct 12, 2014
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