Calandar date format

[outdoorxtreme1]

I need help changing the date format for the calendar event template. Currently it shows - 5 March 2006

I want it to be - 03/05/06

How do I do this. I tried changing some if the settings of the template with no luck.

[outdoorxtreme1]

Do I need to modify the module itself?

[Greg]

you need to set the date_format parameter in the tag to %d/%m/%y

e.g.

{cms_module module="Calendar" date_format="%d/%m/%y"}

[outdoorxtreme1]

I tried this tag in my template and it didn't work.

{cms_module module="Calendar" date_format="%m/%d/%y" summaries=true display="upcominglist" table_id="cal-upcominglist" limit=3}

[iNSiPiD]

I had the same issue since News was upgraded to v2. Neither the 'date_format' nor the 'more' attributes worked any more.

I seem to have resolved this somehow but it's not in the templates or the module call, which means I must have hacked it at some stage.

At the moment I have two different date formats for my News and Site Updates and th eonly difference in the templates is that one checks for 'formatpostdate' and the other for 'postdate'.

e.g.

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{if $entry->formatpostdate}
	<div class="NewsSummaryPostdate">
		{$entry->formatpostdate}
	</div>
{/if}

Can someone "in the know" please provide the correct steps for altering the date format? I thought it was now done through the templates but am not sure what syntax to use.

[iNSiPiD]

Helpful as ever, Patricia. That's exactly the answer we needed.

It would be nice to know what other paramters can be defined using this syntax.

{$entry->postdate|date_format:"%d/%m/%y"}

[iNSiPiD]

Thanks again, Patricia. It's hard to know sometimes where the CMS stops and Smarty begins.

A case in point is Smarty's email tag which already handles various types of encryption. Why do we bother having a plugin that does the same thing but uses javascript to achive its goal. Seems silly. I could also mention the phpinfo module -- but i won't.

[outdoorxtreme1]

Wouldn't work for me this way but I found another way. In the template I moved:

{$month_names[$month_number]}

and

{$event.event_date_start|date_format:"%e"}

around in the template to get it to output how I wanted the date to look.

[iNSiPiD]

Yep. Good input.

The Calendar module uses dates differently from the News module.

[fredt]

As usual, this answer saved me... Thanks Patricia !

This support forum is by far THE BEST I've seen in my 20 years as consultant ! Even experts-exchange is far behind...

Fred

[fredt]

I'd like to... perhaps on Tips & Tricks or FAQ section... But I'm just a nOOb, and have no time at all... my wife already went mad yesterday about me & computers!

OK, I'm going to play Loto, so I'm rich and am forced to earn my money anymore 

BTW, I'd like to see Calendar without installing it (cf a previous post) - can somebody post a link, just to see this Calendar ?

Fred

[iNSiPiD]

fredt,

To install, you only have to click Install in the Extensions->Modules screen and then add the tag to a page. It's very simple. The harder part is styling it the way you like with CSS.

Here's an example with no events in it.

http://d81314.i50.quadrahosting.com.au/events-calendar