Display time in human-readable format

[phuzion]

Per Phillip's email, linked below, it is a little difficult to understand the dates and times displayed on Spiff to those uninitiated to 24-hour time and ISO 8601 date formatting. Not everyone in the world uses ISO 8601 (much to our dismay), but usability and ease of accessibility should be our primary goals with Spiff, since the purpose of event calendars are to give people interested in the space information about the events occurring at the space.

My recommendation would be as follows:

Emails: ISO 8601 date format, followed by 12-hour time with timezone indication. For example: "2013-10-28 1:00 PM EDT"

On-website: ISO 8601 date format, followed by 12-hour timezone, like mentioned above, but with an alt-text of the current ISO8601+UTC compliant timezone when hovering.

Alternatively, provide date and time format options to users (much like phpBB and other forum software) and default to human-readable 12 hour with timezone.

https://synhak.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-October/001543.html

EDIT: I just noticed that the website now (possibly because of the use of bootstrap) displays everything on-site as a more human-readable format. Let's make the emails human-readable?

[tdfischer]

These emails are generated by phong, not spiff.

[phuzion]

For reference, this issue was reopened at https://github.com/SYNHAK/phong/issues/1