{"id":11479,"date":"2014-04-30T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sotrender.com\/?p=11479"},"modified":"2017-04-11T17:58:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:58:47","slug":"new-date-and-time-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/new-date-and-time-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotrender is changing &#8211; new date and time format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Building a SaaS product, like Sotrender, requires constant updates and focus on quality and users&#8217; satisfaction.\u00a0Sometimes this means bigger changes, like e.g. recent introduction of <a title=\"Customer service - take care of your clients on Facebook!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/social-media-customer-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">customer service module<\/a>.\u00a0Yet there are also many small improvements and bug fixing (yes, we do find\u00a0bugs, sometimes &#8211; who doesn&#8217;t? \ud83d\ude09 ). For example, a few days ago we introduced <strong>new date and time format<\/strong>. Why do we care about these small things that can make the use of Sotrender even better?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Clear information about timezone<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>We&#8217;re getting more and more overseas users. <\/strong>Just during last weeks we have acquired our first clients from Moscow, San Francisco and Mexico City\u00a0and we started to work with <a title=\"Indonesian airlines in social media - infographic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/indonesian-airlines\/\" target=\"_blank\">our partner in<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0Indonesia<\/span><\/a>. Furthermore, some of big brands run campaigns accross different timezones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sotrender statistics enable to identify the precise time of activities, but we want users to be sure what time we are talking about. For this reason, in addition to hours, we also decided to add a code of the timezone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11493\" style=\"width: 531px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/screen-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11493\" class=\"wp-image-11493 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/screen-2.jpg\" alt=\"New date and time format - admin's posts\" width=\"521\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/screen-2.jpg 521w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/screen-2-475x241.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New date and time format &#8211; admin&#8217;s posts<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11491\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wskaz\u00f3wka-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11491\" class=\"wp-image-11491 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wskaz\u00f3wka-1.jpg\" alt=\"New date and time format in Sotrender - Tips\" width=\"634\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wskaz\u00f3wka-1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wskaz\u00f3wka-1-475x128.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wskaz\u00f3wka-1-600x162.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New date and time format in Sotrender &#8211; Tips<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can define your timezone while setting your account or change it later in Settings &gt; General:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11607\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/screen-d\u0142ugi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11607\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/screen-d\u0142ugi-1024x84.jpg\" alt=\"Sotrender settings\" width=\"625\" height=\"51\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sotrender settings<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11511\" style=\"width: 797px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/settings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11511\" class=\"wp-image-11511 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/settings.jpg\" alt=\"Different time zones in Sotrender\" width=\"787\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/settings.jpg 787w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/settings-475x272.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/settings-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/settings-600x343.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Different time zones in Sotrender<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--sotrender_ad--><\/p>\n<h2>New date and time format &#8211; striving to be clear<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One more challenge after attracting clients and testers from various countries was the actual format of dates. For a user, it\u2019s essential to be 100% sure what period he is\u00a0analyzing, especially if it comes to a tool which, like <a title=\"Go to the page\" href=\"www.sotrender.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sotrender<\/a>, enables analysis of any time frame.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Until now we were using the most common European format: Day-Month-Year. However, in USA the most common standard is Month-Day-Year and so our US users were often confused. Therefore, we needed an unambiguous and short solution. <strong>Currently, we\u2019re using abbreviation of month, like \u201cApr 24, 2014\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11513\" style=\"width: 454px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/calendar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11513\" class=\"wp-image-11513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/calendar.jpg\" alt=\"Sotrender calendar\" width=\"444\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/calendar.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/calendar-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sotrender calendar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Such changes may seem\u00a0trivial, but due to many features and screens of <a title=\"Go to the page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sotrender.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sotrender<\/a>, they actually had to be introduced in code in several different places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>We\u2019re looking forward to bring you the best Sotrender experience possible. If you have any ideas or comments, just email us at <a href=\"mailto:support@sotrender.com\">support@sotrender.com<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a SaaS product, like Sotrender, requires constant updates and focus on quality and users&#8217; satisfaction.\u00a0Sometimes this means bigger changes, like e.g. recent introduction of customer service module.\u00a0Yet there are also many small improvements and bug fixing (yes, we do find\u00a0bugs, sometimes &#8211; who doesn&#8217;t? \ud83d\ude09 ). 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