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Website Archives - timestamp and naming of the files - Connie - 2011-05-10

I do not know whether this has been adressed already and whether it is difficult to implement, but as the local timezone is set in the configuration (even that is the user's local timezone...) why not use that timezone for list of websitearchives?

1) Linktext in Website-Archive-Page:

Example given:

local timezone is set to Europe/Amsterdam Berlin, and language is set to de_DE,
archives are linked like this:

Code:
May 10th, 2011 - 10:23 AM

it would be easier for users if that link-text would refer to the setting, showing up like that for example:

Code:
10 Mai 2011 - 10:23

in 24 hours mode

2) name of the archives

now the names of the generated archive-files show up like this

Code:
_var_www_web10_html_getsimple_backups_zip_2011-05-10-0823_41_archive.zip

my suggestion would be to name them in a pattern like that:

Code:
getsimple_backup_YYYY_MM_DD_HHMM_SS.zip

so all zipfiles will be easy to identify in a directory and they all will be sorted by topic (getsimple) and by date

what do you think?

Website Archives - timestamp and naming of the files - Connie - 2011-05-10

one addition:

please include the language files in the website-archive! Even when there is only the file with the default name, it could be that this one was modified by the admins ...

these files belong to the core of GetSimple.

Website Archives - timestamp and naming of the files - hameau - 2011-05-10

I don't see the date/time problem here.

The date and time on my archive page is using the date format set in the language file ("DATE_AND_TIME_FORMAT"). It looks like yours is still in US format.

I do agree that a better naming scheme for downloaded site archives would be useful and I change the filename manually when saving. I would like to see the name of the site, too. Perhaps a setting either in the backend or in gsconfig for a string to prepend to the archive filename when downloading?

Website Archives - timestamp and naming of the files - Connie - 2011-05-10

hameau Wrote:I don't see the date/time problem here.

The date and time on my archive page is using the date format set in the language file ("DATE_AND_TIME_FORMAT"). It looks like yours is still in US format.

Nick, that's a good hint, I will check

Website Archives - timestamp and naming of the files - ccagle8 - 2011-05-10

Connie: http://code.google.com/p/get-simple-cms/issues/detail?id=202

Website Archives - timestamp and naming of the files - Connie - 2011-05-10

@ Chris,

thanks for adding this to the Issues

@hameau,

I am such a blockhead... I translated the languagefile myself and oversaw that option ;=(
it is fixed now, and the link-text is like I wanted it

Cheers, Connie