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I was just wondering if there's a way (or more likely where I'm missing the place) to set the amount of days left on a poll to display.

I'm looking a poll I've put at right now and it doesn't have any place to indicate how many days are left to vote on said poll.

As I said, I've probably looked right at it 3-4 times now and just missed it, but any help would be super awesome.

Thanks a lot!

There is an option while creating a poll, Poll Timeout: This is the number of days from the poll creation date until the poll is automatically closed and users will not be able to vote any more.
More info: http://wiki.mybb.com/index.php/Polls

Yeah, I know that. I set it to X amount of days before it closes, but there's nothing on the actual poll itself that says "This Poll Will Close in X Days".

That's what I'm looking for.

I believe you found a bug. I've edited a core file and few templates, so I'm sharing this with you.

Open ./showthread.php and find;

		$expiretime = $poll['dateline'] + $poll['timeout'];

and Replace it with the following code;

		$expiretime = $poll['dateline'] + $poll['timeout'];
		$enddate = my_date($mybb->settings['dateformat'], $poll['dateline'] + $poll['timeout']);
		$endtime = my_date($mybb->settings['timeformat'], $poll['dateline']);

Now Go to: ACP > Templates > Showthread Templates > showthread_poll > and find;

{$lang->poll} {$poll['question']}</strong>

and add the following code just after that;

<br/>
<div class="smalltext">This poll will end on {$enddate} , {$endtime}</div>

Similarly open "showthread_poll_results" template and find;

{$lang->poll} {$poll['question']}</strong>

and add the following code just after that;

<div class="smalltext">This poll will end on {$enddate} , {$endtime}</div>

Now it should look like this;
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That's exactly what I was looking for.

Went in and did the changes and it's all good.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks.

Just an update here, when I updated my forum to 1.6.3 the date went away.

What I'm seeing now is...

"This poll will end on ,"

You'll need to make the changes to ./showthread.php again.

Sorry, forgot to mention that I did that before I posted my recent problem.

Actually you've upgraded your forum with overwriting the showthread.php file to the old one. That's why the edits/modified lines erased.

In order to achieve the same modification, you've to make the above edits again.