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    Niwashi's Avatar
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    Y'kayah Tia
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    Please change the default name for screenshots to have the date in Year-Month-Day order rather than Month-Day-Year order.

    reason:
    I play on PS4 and like to take lots of screenshots. I recently copied a bunch of them to my computer and find it really frustrating to go through them, because they won't sort correctly. Although when viewing them on the PS4 itself, it can display them in date/time order, when copied to a thumb drive for transfer, it sets the filedate to the time they're copied rather than when they were taken, and they're copied in a random order.

    That issue by itself is Sony's doing and there's nothing SE can do about it, but I expect that SE can quite easily give us a simple workaround. The file names already include the date and time they were taken, along with the name of the character we were playing at the time, like "Y'kayah Tia 07_24_2017 00_37_19.jpg". Since it includes our character name, I'm pretty sure the game itself (rather than the PS4 OS) is choosing the filename to use, in which case it should be a simple matter for SE to change the order in which the pieces are included. Changing the date portion of the filename from "07_24_2017" to "2017_07_24" would make the files sort correctly. (It's also a more universal international standard for dates, anyway.)
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    S-r-ex's Avatar
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    Goodall Curie
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
    Please change the default name for screenshots to have the date in Year-Month-Day order rather than Month-Day-Year order.
    SE shouldn't have any problem fixing this on PC, our ffxiv_DDMMYYY_HHMMSS.png is even less sortable. Come on, SE, you're a Japanese company, you already use the perfect YYYYMMDD order in everyday life, why aren't you using it on screenshots?
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