Please correct the format of dates shown on Forum posts

[Dave Hicks]

I did a quick survey of forums I use. The default format that this forum uses was the most common. Second most common was a collection of various spelled-out formats with months (sometimes abbreviated) and sometimes days of the week (in various orders.) In the forums I looked at, one used '/'s instead of '-'s (and a 2 digit year). I tried poking around in my user control panels of a few forums and most of them didn't even provide any options involving date formats.

So I think this is fine for now. Future versions may have more options but the default is likely to stay like it is for some time. By the way, I've been putting dashes in dates for decades so if someone wanted a separator to promise something they should have come up with something that wasn't already in common use. I kind of like the Chinese way myself: 2015年9月2日.