• Date Tag (Originally "Time Tag") •

ilovestories

My suggestion is a date tag.
How would it work?
This is an example placement of a date tag:

The super-duper Scratch party is [date]28/2/2024[/date]

The date tag would be used to show a word like Today or Yesterday if the date put into it was in the last few days, much like the dates on forum posts.
The above code is only one idea of how the date is inserted into the block. (It obviously wouldn’t use what I used there, because other countries besides America put that in a different order.)
Why would it be useful?
Example 1: Say @RandomUser is making a post about his party he’s having in a studio, and it’s only on that day. The day before, he types in his forum post, “The party is tomorrow!”. Then, the next day, someone goes on and sees it. They plan to visit the studio the next day. The next day, they get to the studio - and the party’s over.
That sounds a bit far-fetched, but you get the idea.

Here are some suggestions of how it might be in more detail from other forumers.

Malicondi wrote:
the blue controller site has a feature like this, and it translates into everyone's timezone so this would be a nice feature to have if it was similar to that.

chriscreators14 wrote:

Solution:

 The super-duper Scratch party is [date=us]1/2/2024[/date]

Jan 2

 The super-duper Scratch party is [date=notus]1/2/2023[/date]

Feb 1

The title was originally “Time Tag”, but I thought “Date Tag” would be more accurate.

Last edited by ilovestories (May 24, 2024 19:16:44)

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RecessFailsOffical

I'm generally scared to post this because you're my boss but i guess I'm taking chances

Can't you look at the activity? Or, in the forums, when it was posted?

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RecessFailsOffical wrote:
I'm generally scared to post this because you're my boss but i guess I'm taking chances

Can't you look at the activity? Or, in the forums, when it was posted?

You can, but its more convenient this way.

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Malicondi

the blue controller site has a feature like this, and it translates into everyone's timezone so this would be a nice feature to have if it was similar to that.

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ilovestories

bump

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NotK3ndricAlt

So it could be used for things like this?

The leap day is on [time]29/2/2024[/time]!

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ilovestories

NotK3ndricAlt wrote:
So it could be used for things like this?
The leap day is on [time]29/2/2024[/time]!

Yes.

Last edited by ilovestories (Feb. 29, 2024 16:43:08)

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BringUpYourPost

NotK3ndricAlt wrote:
So it could be used for things like this?
The leap day is on [time]29/2/2024[/time]!

that would be like “The leap day is on Today” which doesn't make sense

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BringUpYourPost wrote:
NotK3ndricAlt wrote:
So it could be used for things like this?
The leap day is on [time]29/2/2024[/time]!
that would be like “The leap day is on Today” which doesn't make sense

just remove “on”

Scratchers that I've cati-fied

undeterministic

what if it was 2 days ago

yadayadayadagoodbye

undeterministic wrote:
what if it was 2 days ago

The leap day is 2 days ago
or
The leap day is 2 months ago
could extend to “year” or even “decades”

(imagine future archeologists dig up the scratch servers and go in and see “The leap day is 15 decades ago” lol)

Scratchers that I've cati-fied

undeterministic

yadayadayadagoodbye wrote:
undeterministic wrote:
what if it was 2 days ago
The leap day is 2 days ago
or
The leap day is 2 months ago
could extend to “year” or even “decades”

(imagine future archeologists dig up the scratch servers and go in and see “The leap day is 15 decades ago” lol)

the leap year was two days ago

starlightsparker

RecessFailsOffical wrote:
I'm generally scared to post this because you're my boss but i guess I'm taking chances

Can't you look at the activity? Or, in the forums, when it was posted?

True but this would be more convenient
wdym theyre your boss?

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starlightsparker wrote:
wdym theyre your boss?

I own a federation on the Requests forum, and they are staff there.
I'm not quite sure why they're worried I'd fire them because they disagreed with me on the Suggestions forum.

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ilovestories

bump

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RethinkingVoxels

Dupe

Mathboss12

RethinkingVoxels wrote:
Dupe

Is deltatime the same thing? Also, that post was also a dupe, of this topic.

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RethinkingVoxels wrote:
Dupe

Do your research. Delta time is not at all the same as this

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RethinkingVoxels

starlightsparker wrote:
RethinkingVoxels wrote:
Dupe
Do your research. Delta time is not at all the same as this

My bad I thought the title was delta time
trust me it looked similar

cactus-cacti

RethinkingVoxels wrote:
starlightsparker wrote:
RethinkingVoxels wrote:
Dupe
Do your research. Delta time is not at all the same as this
My bad I thought the title was delta time
trust me it looked similar

All good. There are some similarities between the suggestions, too.
it really does

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