Feature of the week: Localized Date Information

This week I'll describe a rather small, but nevertheless important new feature. Some of you might never have noticed that the date of publications was rendered in many different ways - namely as it was given by the corresponding user who entered the publication meta information into BibSonomy.

With BibSonomy's last release we made some efforts to consolidate the representation of dates in publications. Some heuristics are applied for parsing as many different given date formats as possible. This allows us to render the corresponding date strings according to a consistent date format - especially depending on the logged in user's language settings.

Happy Tagging -- and stay tuned for the upcoming new release 2.0.16!

.folke

Feature of the week: View the date of your posts

In BibSonomy there exist two dates for each publication or bookmark:

• the date on which it was first created and 
• the date on which it was changed last. 

Those dates are displayed on our website in different ways. Most of the time you get information about how long ago a post was created as in "22 days ago by <user>". The reason is that we determine dates in the CEST time zone so the exact dates would be confusing for most of our users.

Nonetheless you can view the exact dates of a post by hoovering above the date field:

As this week's feature you can now also have a look at the update and creation date of a publication on its details page:

Happy Tagging!