Tom Metro wrote: > Darren Hart has proposed modifying the format used to display dates in > the mvpmc user interface, as discussed in this mailing list thread: > http://www.nabble.com/-patch-3-4--New-date-formatting-options-td14237489s24862.html > > We'd like to determine which format is preferred by most people, so that > format can be made the default, with the other formats possibly being > supported with command line options (or choices on the settings screen). > > Please express your preferences in our survey: > http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/Poll+-+Date+Format
After a long delay waiting for the survey site to fix some bugs - some of which got fixed and some of which didn't - here are the results: http://app.sgizmo.com/reports/9600/25020/6314QG21YZ5VDL95FM2YNK9H8I4M0N/ The last column on the tables, average rank, gives lower values to the more popular choices. Note that the rows of the table aren't sorted (one of the unfixed bugs). The survey hasn't been closed, but I probably will close it shortly, as I think the patch relating to this has already been committed. (The survey results at the above page are static and won't update until I manually re-run the report, so if you take the survey, don't expect to see the results reflected.) Not all users answered all questions. The questions received between 28 and 38 responses. The results may be a bit skewed as we added choices to some of the questions after some people had already voted. You can make a case that there are better formulas to rank the results by, instead of average rank. For example, if you're more interested in which choices got the most "first choice" votes, you'll get a different ordering than shown below, though the top "first choice" vote getter still remains at the top. It may be useful to figure out what the second best choice is, if we support only a limited number of formats though command line switches. Here's a summary of the results, in order of average rank from most to least popular: Date Format Order these choices according to your preferred date format for the date Friday, December 7, 2007. 1. Fri Dec 07 2007 2. Fri 07 Dec 2007 3. 2007-12-07 4. 12-07-2007 5. 07-12-2007 6. 2007-07-12 Time Format Order these choices according to your preferred time format for the time 8:59 PM. 1. 24 Hour: 20:59 2. 12 Hour: 8:59 PM 3. 12 Hour: 08:59 PM Duration Format Select your preferred format for showing the duration of a show, in this example a show starting at 8 PM with a duration of 1 hour and 32 minutes. Assume the time format used in the time ranges follows your preferred format, even if the example does not. 1. Delta: (1 hr 32 min) 2. Delta: (1:32) 3. Time range: 08:00 PM - 09:32 PM 4. Delta: (92 min) -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
