A date question

I noticed in my journal and in the Plants Database that only the month and day are displayed.

That was fine last year, when I could fairly easily figure out if it was a 2000 or 2001 entry. But now it's not so easy to know for sure. Any chance we can get the year added to entries? (Or am I the only one who cares, LOL?)

Tim brought this up some time ago, and per his suggestion I added the dates to the forums. For some reason, however, I justified not adding it to other areas. I can't recall my reasoning, but now that we're in our 3rd calendar year of DG, it really does make sense to get those years put in wherever we can. I'll do it.

Dave

Vols,

The year is now included in all dates of the Plants Database. I checked some other areas, and it looks like the year is indeed already being shown in all areas of the journal.

I must be missing some area that should contain the date. Can you point me to the page that needs it?

I think that should bring all the dates up to compliance, so let me know if you find anywhere else!

Dave

I just went back and found that the "Sowing Date" area didn't show the year, but everything else was. I fixed that, so I think the journal is finished with the date stuff now. Let me know if not!

dave

That was it! Thanks Dave!!!!

Dave... could it be possible that every member could see all the times and dates here in his/her own time? As, all the times here don't say anything to me, and it is so annoying to wait the day to change there so I could see whose birthday it is =) Always about 8:00 am before I go to school I get the Davesgarden newsletter.. is it the time when your day changes?

Evert, I think it changes about midnight EST, because I am often up then and I see posts start to show the new date. I am in central time zone, so it looks like 11 P.M. to me. About 11:45 P.M. CST, the newsletter pops into my inbox.

Yes, the DG server is set to Eastern Standard Time, and changes to Eastern Daylight Time during the summer.

Evert - your question and suggestion is a very good one, and I've had it asked of me before. The problem is, there is no really good way to convert times from one time zone to another, automatically. It would be a very big hack for me, would consume an amazing amount of time, and, frankly, wouldn't work 100% perfectly.

For those reasons, I decided some time ago to just pick a time zone and stick with it. We're 5 hours behind UTC/GMT.

Best,
Dave

is ETC same as GMT -5 ? So... I am 7 hours (8 hours in summer) ahead you. (I live in GMT +2)

I always thought I am 11 hours ahead.

By the way - What does UTC mean? (where does the letters come from?)

GMT means Greenwich Meridian time? I think it is pretty selfish to England that they have owned the GMT +-0 zone. :}

Evert,

It's EST, standing for Eastern Standard Time, just as CET means Central Europe Time.

EST is UTC-5, and during the summer it's EDT UTC-4.

UTC is the same as GMT, but is used as a more universal way of saying it, without giving any credit to Greenwich. UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time.

Read more on timezones here: http://www.timeanddate.com/time/abbreviations.html

Dave

Thanks! :)

Evert

Here's a little bit of the history of GMT http://www.greenwich2000.co.uk/millennium/info/conference.htm

Baa thanks for the link it clears up alot of questions.