Implemented Date should be a criteria (Notices, trophies)

[Rigel Kentaurus]

The notices could be used as an announcements-like feature if it had a date criteria, to only display the notice from X date to Y date.

This could also enable more creative uses for that, for example, I could give a user a trophy, only, and only, on a certain date. That way I could run some trophies as promotions (reach X posts before Y date to get it, after that no longer available)

 

[Russ]

I can see many uses for allowing times/dates to be part of the criteria.

Contest running now
Pre-sale running now
Discount limited time
Staff gone for the weekend

Ect ect...

great suggestion!

 

[Kier]

It's something we plan to add, but there are technical issues holding it back at present.

 

[Forsaken]

It's something we plan to add, but there are technical issues holding it back at present.

Damnit Kier, stop thinking of everything!

 

[Kier]

Specifically, the issue is one of "okay, so when is that then?".

Let me explain.

Let's say I provide a date/time picker, and you specify that you want a notice to appear at 9am on November 2nd.

When do you mean? You could mean any of these things:

1. Nov 2 @ 0900 UTC
2. Nov 2 @ 0900 in your timezone
3. Nov 2 @0900 in the server's timezone
4. Nov 2 @ 0900 in the current visitor's timezone

If you have a server in Texas, visitors in Europe and you are administering from Australia, an assumption of any of these timezones could have wildly varying effects upon when the notice actually shows up.

 

[erich37]

IMHO
the timezone needs to be specified as UTC, CET,... by the admin.
Forget about user-timezone, server timezone or admin-timezone.

 

[ibnesayeed]

That means selection of one of the above mentioned options would be a field along with the date/time picker field.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Specifically, the issue is one of "okay, so when is that then?".

Let me explain.

Let's say I provide a date/time picker, and you specify that you want a notice to appear at 9am on November 2nd.

When do you mean? You could mean any of these things:

1. Nov 2 @ 0900 UTC
2. Nov 2 @ 0900 in your timezone
3. Nov 2 @0900 in the server's timezone
4. Nov 2 @ 0900 in the current visitor's timezone

If you have a server in Texas, visitors in Europe and you are administering from Australia, an assumption of any of these timezones could have wildly varying effects upon when the notice actually shows up.

That sounds like a really easy to solve issue considering you can ask for the timezone in the page itself, or add a legend saying that time is the admin's timezone (I think most people have in their minds their own time when setting up things). Please don't let something like that prevent you from adding that feature.

When you said technical issues I was expecting some crazy caching you could be doing with notices in the session or serialization that prevents the date from being correctly considered in some particular scenarios Glad to know is not like that.

 

[Paul B]

Unfortunately a lot administrators don't know their UTC from their elbow, so in many instances the notice will be displayed at an incorrect time.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Unfortunately a lot administrators don't know their UTC from their elbow, so in many instances the notice will be displayed at an incorrect time.

This is trivial to solve ...
Just add a disclaimer on the page

The time is HH:mm
The UTC time is HH:mm
(this notice will be created on UTC time)

Or make a selectable option of "admin time", "user time", "UTC time" next to the date field ...
I really think that we are not discussing a hard-to-solve problem

 

[Kier]

Something like this you mean?

 

[Slavik]

Something like this you mean?

View attachment 19894

You should use that option for the next release of xenforo... watch the non-Brits suffer as they wait for their timezone to catch up

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Something like this you mean?

View attachment 19894

Awesome

 

[Kier]

All done now.

 

[Paul B]

Does the If no user or page criteria are specified, this notice will always be displayed phrase need to be updated to include date now?

If no user, date, or page criteria are specified, this notice will always be displayed.

 

[ibnesayeed]

I presume that birthday criteria will use users' timezone.

 

[CTXMedia]

I presume that birthday criteria will use users' timezone.

You're a bad man ...

 

[Kier]

I presume that birthday criteria will use users' timezone.

Always has.

 

[bambua]

Fabulous option

 

[Mike Tougeron]

This is awesome. I was just searching to see if there was already a request for this or not & I see you already implemented it.