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Localization of (forum) maintenance announcements

Hi,

 

it's fine you announce maintenance intervals with some advance. It's also fine you localize that message according to user regional settings:

It would be even better when you would also localize the timestamps with respect to user's regional settings. Right now it some heavy kind of "Denglisch" (meaning a wild mix of English and German) as we say in Germany. It's quite hard to think about AM/PM and CST times here in the center of Europe…

 

Asking as a programmer: what is "18:00 PM" exactly? Do you use 24h format or do you use 12 hour format with AM/PM? Does CST only apply to Sunday or also to Friday timestamp?

Best regards,
GerdW


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Hi @GerdW 

 

That is good feedback. I will pass it along to the team that is doing that maintenance, which is not specific to NI Community. When I post NI Community planned maintenance, I always work to include both CST/CDT and UTC.

 

Best,

Mark

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Customer Learning, Community, Online Documentation, and Support
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For comparison, here's the current English (US) version:

 

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Hi Mark,

 

the next maintenance the same localisation problem...

Best regards,
GerdW


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And again we have a forum maintenance and still get the same mix of German text with English timestamps. And those timestamps also still use some CDT + AM/PM format totally unrelated to my CEST timezone…

Best regards,
GerdW


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Next forum maintenance, still the same bogus timestamps in the message!

 

Why do i have to think about CST times in a localised German message? Added bonus: we still have to count for DST in Europe...

Best regards,
GerdW


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Hi,

 

while we had UTC times in announcements the last time you now forgot about them again:

Still a mix of German and English, still just US timezones, now even with wrong dates/weekdays...

Best regards,
GerdW


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The same in Italian localization:

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And I wonder why 05:00 AM in Germany and 06:00 in Italy 🙄



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Hi Roberto,

 


@RobertoBozzolo wrote:

And I wonder why 05:00 AM in Germany and 06:00 in Italy 🙄


Because someone corrected the whole message as it now correctly claims Tuesday/Wednesday instead of Monday/Tuesday - and so added one more hour for the update time frame…

Best regards,
GerdW


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Time should not be so difficult. 

 

Sol is apparently overhead nearby thusly! 

12ish should not be a problem! Screw DST!

 

 

(Yes, Terra is spinning fast, probably a major slipfault earthquake is due! Ask any icedancer about rotation and inertia)


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