remove time/date flag

[bear]

fixes issue 132

[bear]

@philiptzou I made an attempt at removing the time/date flag, but may have goofed something up (I shouldn't code this late at night ;)

can you review this for any silly mistakes?

[philiptzou]

hohoho... This's a huge work which I tried to avoid to do in a couple of weeks.

Well I'll check all the problems...