YESTERDAY/TODAY DATESTAMP HACK - Updated 5/25/02
Tested and working on vB 2.2.1 -> 2.2.6

Description: This hack replaces the standard "05-25-02, 02:45 PM" date with "Today" or "Yesterday" anywhere you have a date posted, if the date matches today's or yesterday's date.

Demo: Installed on vBulletin.org.

The following are add-ons that may be helpful depending on your specific needs.

Extra features:

• Template-based version : Allows you to specify different values for "Today" and "Yesterday" -- useful if you have multiple language style sets on your board. (i.e., you can set the value for today to "Today" in your English style set, and "Aujourd'hui" for your Francais style set.)
  
• Change "You last visited:" to the "Today 08:33PM" format : Due to the way vB was coded, this does not happen by default. Follow the instructions in this link to make this change.
  
• Change the date style to "Today, at 08:33 PM"

Helpful template hacks: Due to the way the standard vB template set handles date columns in forumhome.php and forumdisplay.php, some template changes may be of use:

• To modify forumhome.php: Follow the instructions here
• To modify forumdisplay.php: Follow the instructions here

Comments and criticism are always welcome.
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Thanks for a cool hack!

Great hack, well done. Thnx

Excellent hack :)

well done, thanks :up:

Nice and clean! Should be in vB long ago :-) Maybe v3?

- djr

Great hack, well done. Thnx

:pleased:

good work bigmattyh

also, the instructions were very laid out and easy to read

keep em coming big man!!!

Very nice! Thanks. :up:

I replace the code in functions.php but nothing changed still says date and time

I'd be interested to see your board, so that I can help you out.

But I'm sure it isn't www.abcnews.com -- which is what you've listed as your www page.

i don't have a board. I just install hacks and do work for Avenger board called Verbal Warfare.

The hack should work anywhere vbdate() is called. Check to see that it's called in the places that it isn't working. Without seeing your files, I can't diagnose the problem!

Good luck,
Matt

Nemesis77

It is working but the threads in your test forum are older than two dayes.

post a new thread and you will see the hack working perfictly :greedy:

this is just superb. simple, but so effective! thanks! :D

well, here's something i've noticed: see the attachment.

there's now a space between the last post info and lastpost.gif,
whereas before they were tucked in real tight together.
this is the case everywhere -except- the lowest forum in each category,
where the small gap has been maintained.

what is the reason for this, and is there a simple fix?

Twig Deez,

I've looked at your board, and I think that's a template problem with forumdisplaybit. Take a look at that nested table that has the date display info -- and do two things:

1) In the <table> tag, set align="right"
2) Remove width="100%"

That ought to do it, I think.

I fixed this in the forumdisplay by going to the forumdisplaybit template and adding width="100%" to the <td> for the last post time and poster. I think this will work in all the templates with the nested table for the lastpost.gif.

thanks for checking that for me, bigmattyh;
your fix didn't work, but fwc, yours did! on both forumhome and in forumdisplay.

thank you both for your assistance, i'm now 125% satisfied with this hack! :D

Cool.

I second that cool. :)

1 thing I have noticed is "edited by" messages in the post bit alaso use this time format, and by default it creates a gramatical error:

Last edited by Nickname on Today at 18:38
Last edited by Nickname on Yesterday at 18:38
Last edited by Nickname on 26-01-2002 at 18:38

See what I mean?

I've noticed this issue, and I'm currently working on an upgrade to fix this, so that the replacement is more context-sensitive.

Some of my users like it, some don't. Can this be an option in their user cp?

I, too, am looking forward to a fix for this. The same thing is happening in "Who's Online"'s most-users count.

Other than that, it's a BRILLIANT hack.

Easy - thanks!

Just to keep you updated, this weekend, I'm going to work on a fix for the issues mentioned above. Specifically, I'll be fixing the problem that causes grammatical errors on some pages.

So if anyone's interested, check back on Monday for a fix!

its a few days late but did you get it fixed?

Very effective hack,thanks a lot :)

Works beautifully.

Thank you!
:) Jennie

Hey everybody,

I posted a couple of weeks ago that I would post an upgrade that would fix some of the minor unintended side effects of this hack. For example, the last-edited-by tagline can say "Last updated on Today at 8:32 PM." There are only a few places where this is an issue, but I am about to fix them. I now have the time to do it.

I will post a document with fixes later tonight. :)

Woohoo! I have been anxiously (but patiently) awaiting this for some time now.

This is the only hack I use on my board.

Thanks a lot for working on it!

The bug has been fixed, and the new release can be downloaded in the first post of this thread.

Enjoy! :)

Thank you for that. Actually, I wrote a similar (unpublished) hack for UBB, and always wanted it on vBulletin but didn't have the patience to add it. :)

works great - thanks!

I've got to ask the mods here (and what better place to do it than in this thread) --

Is that my hack you're using on this forum?? If so, :) :) :) :)!

Looks like this is your hack. I was sure when I saw "by FireFly on Today 02:03 AM"

Works just fine.

Thank you.

Any chance of getting this hack to work for all instances, such as You last visited: 02-26-2002 12:43 AM.
To: You last visited: Today 12:43 AM.

Works perfectly on my board. Thanks very much!