• Date Tag (Originally "Time Tag") •

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category: Suggestions

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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.

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

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

NotK3ndricAlt wrote:

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

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

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”
what if it was 2 days ago

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)

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

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?

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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RethinkingVoxels wrote:

Dupe

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

RethinkingVoxels wrote:

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

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

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
no support, editing the forum stuff is hard
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why?
like other than “meet me at 69 rizz way at {time tag}”

among_us1w2 wrote:

why?
like other than “meet me at 69 rizz way at {time tag}”
It would be useful for any forum post with a date in it.
Ok, so like this?:

jeff. wrote:

When was that?

bob wrote:

]Uuuhhh (too lazy to do the math)…..{time} 9/11/2001{/time} (would say 8,216 days ago)
RIght?

DangerPuppy10 wrote:

Ok, so like this?:

example wrote:

When was that?
Uuuhhh (too lazy to do the math)…..9/11/2001 (would say 8,216 days ago)
RIght?
It might convert to months and then years, like the comments do.
(Therefore, “23 years ago”, if we're being like the comments, which don't show the exact date after all that time.)
It could also show the exact date ago with years and months, or it could be like what you were saying.

Whatever's best.

ilovestories wrote:

DangerPuppy10 wrote:

Ok, so like this?:

example wrote:

When was that?
Uuuhhh (too lazy to do the math)…..9/11/2001 (would say 8,216 days ago)
RIght?
It might convert to months and then years, like the comments do.
(Therefore, “23 years ago”, if we're being like the comments, which don't show the exact date after all that time.)
It could also show the exact date ago with years and months, or it could be like what you were saying.

Whatever's best.
yeah.
wait why the formatting? also editing the bbcode thingy is difficult.

ilovestories wrote:

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.

The title was originally “Time Tag”, but I thought “Date Tag” would be more accurate.
this idea is definitely good!

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?
Well, the forum activity time thing is hours off, so I wouldn't be relying on that.
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ilovestories wrote:

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.

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

So, Por Ejemplo, the date is far out. Let's say

 Scratch is going to turn 20 on [date]15-5-27[/date]  

Will it just display days until or round weeks, months, years, etc? and what about all of the other formats you can make a date, e.g. the format the Americans use where the months and days are switched?

 Scratch is going to turn 20 on [date]5-15-27[/date]  

Can this be made interchangeable?- no. I think there would be a bump down the road if you used this feature. Say an American who did not know the syntax of the “Time Tag” was going to have their super-duper Scratch party on January the second.

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

The computer, which is hypothetically instructed to use the other syntax, will display the date as February 1st. You see the problem this presents right? Scratchers, active and inactive from the United States make up a whopping 33.82% of scratch, which is approximately 434,757,93 registered users give or take. Given that other people might use the US' system as well, that is only more Scratchers that have the potential to make that mistake. I think it is too complicated and too easy to get mess up to implicate in Scratch

-Expo wrote:

*snip*
Like I was saying, it probably wouldn't be inserted in the ##/##/#### format.