Unable to get Vortex to Show Install Dates/Times

[Vyxenne]

• I'm on the latest Vortex updated today, May 27, 2019 but this has been this way since Day One
• I'm running around 225 mods and do not know how to get Vortex to show me the actual number of mods installed (as opposed to Plugin Index/Count, which is not the same thing.) I saw it once and have not been able to find it again.
• I'm running Windows 7 SP1 or SP2 (I'm unsure because I have read that MS "Stealth installed" a SP2 without calling it a Service Pack) however Windows says it is on SP1 and I have all of the latest Windows Updates so whatever

My issue is that I am unable to make Vortex show me an actual installation date and time. It shows relative approximations such as "seconds ago," "2 hours ago," "1 week ago" and "17 years ago" but no matter how long I stare at the settings screens I am not able to find a way to get Vortex to show me "May 10, 2019 02:27" like every other mod manager on the planet including NMM.

 

All of the "nn xxxxes ago" information is useless because it is horribly imprecise- once it reaches a particular "ago" date increment (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months) it only increments in multiples of that particular clump of time- so it goes from "1 week ago" to "2 weeks ago" at some unknown point, presumably between 1 and 7 days since the last "week ago" increment, which is terminally imprecise and thus useless When it starts counting in "months ago" increments, I have no idea how many days beyond "1 month ago" it has to be before it starts reporting "2 months ago" - 1 day? 15 days? 30 days? It's truly useless.

 

An example of why mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm of installation is crucial to me and presumably to others: tonight I found some "stray" meshes tucked away in a folder named "person123456." I do not have any mods that I know of from "person123456" but I noticed that all of the meshes (as well as the folder) were showing creation times of May 10, 2019 at 02:21 hours. "Simple enough, then!" I said to myself. "I'll just make NMM ... oops, Vortex, I mean... show me a Date/Time sort (Descending) and then see what mod I installed on May 10, 2019 at 02:21- a couple of hours after midnight, which is probably why I don't remember it." Of course, when I tried to do that, well... you know: useless "nn xxxes ago" rough approximations is all Vortex offered me and I can't find a way to change it in the settings.

 

So please can someone tell me how to make Vortex show me actual installation dates and times, or alternatively, would the Devs please consider this a "feature" request to revert Vortex's "installation era" display back 10 years to what NMM was doing from the get-go?

 

Thanks.

 

Oh, and PS: The mod turned out to be one of those compendium megamods (5GB worth) where someone had assembled 29 clothing mods in a single package without consolidating the folders so I ended up with all 29 mods individually installed without ever seeing them go by. That's why I didn't know that I had, in fact, unknowingly installed a mod by "person123456." :D

[HadToRegister]

Mod Tab ----> Select the STATUS Filter, turn it on ENABLED, right below it, it will show "This table is filtered, showing xxx/xxx items" is one way to get a count
You can do that on the plugin tab as well.

[Rattledagger]

Hmm, if you double-click a mod to open up the extra dialogue on the right, is the exact install date and time displayed here? If so this is at least a partial solution but I'll agree displaying the exact date and time in the column would for anything larger than 1 day would be better.

 

BTW, the date should of course be from most important to least important, meaning day first, followed by month and year last.

 

Example, if you're going to meet someone in 1 - 2 weeks, being told to meet on the 5th. or the 12th. is important for the meeting, while the month and year is not important.

[AugustaCalidia]

Rattledagger is right - the Mod Details Pane allows you to see the exact date of installation.

 

But there's more. If you go to the mods page taskbar and click inside the Installation Time box, a calendar appears with the current date. You can set the calendar to a specific date and then use the Installation Time filters to list what was installed before, on, or after that date. You can also use the arrows to arrange the list in ascending or descending order, according to the precise dates shown in the Mod Details Pane.

[Vyxenne]

BTW, the date should of course be from most important to least important, meaning day first, followed by month and year last.

 

Example, if you're going to meet someone in 1 - 2 weeks, being told to meet on the 5th. or the 12th. is important for the meeting, while the month and year is not important.

I see your logic, but I'm afraid I disagree with your conclusion. Pretty much all computers store dates by most significant to least significant, so May 10, 2019 is stored as the integer 20190510 and displayed in accordance with however the user has set her date format- could be mm/dd/yyyy as is common in the US, but it could also be dd/mm/yyyy as is common in other parts of the world.

 

Date format is just a display setting- in order to be accurately sortable, the underlying information has to be in integer format from most to least significant- YYYYMMDDhhhhmmss, or decimal format YYYYMMDD.(ElapsedSeconds)/86400.

[Vyxenne]

the Mod Details Pane allows you to see the exact date of installation.

That's on a mod-by-mod basis, one mod at a time. My issue is about displaying the actual installation date of all mods at once without filtering or clicking anything. Just seeing the installation date of a mod I have double-clicked, or a range of mods that I have filtered on using a whiz-bang calendar interface, does not solve the problem I am reporting and asking for devs to implement since apparently, there is no way to make the current version of Vortex just display and sort on installation dates like NMM does.

 

 

according to the precise dates shown in the Mod Details Pane.

This implies that you can see all mod installation dates at once? I'm not sure what this actually means but I'm about to try it and see. Thank you.

 

EDIT: Ugh. Tried it, can't filter on a date range, only a single date, and even when I do that, the info in the date installed column still just says "2 weeks ago" and so forth. The only way so far that I have found to force an actual date display, following the suggestions here, is on a single mod-by-mod basis, double-clicking the mod to open its "description" popout (from the right side of the frame.)