News Date Format

[memarkiam]

The default date format for the 'date added' in News is US format.

I'd actually like to have "4 October 2006", but at least it should be "dd-mm-yyyy" (not "mm-dd-yyyy")

Does anyone know how I can do this?

Many thanks.
Mark

[Dr.CSS]

Extensions > Modules click News or Help...

(optional) dateformat="%b %d, %Y" - Format to display the article's post date with. This is based on the strftime function and can be used in your template with $entry->formatpostdate. It defaults to %x, which is the default date format for the server's locale.

[memarkiam]

Many thanks for this. Only thing is it doesn't seem to be making any difference. This is what I have:

{$entry->formatpostdate dateformat="%b %d, %Y"}

I am doing something wrong here?

Thanks,
Mark

[Dee]

Looks OK... maybe the WYSIWYG changed the double quotes to "?
Try using single quotes instead.

[Dee]

Hmm, the dateformat parameter should be used on the news module call, not inside the template:

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{news dateformat="%b %d, %Y"}

[Dee]

Inside the template you could use Smarty's dateformat modifier:

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{$entry->formatpostdate|date_format:"%b, %d %Y"}

Regards,
D

[Dr.CSS]

All parameters shown in the Help are to be added to the 'tag' when used in template or page...

[memarkiam]

Thanks very much Dee & Mark.

The Smarty dateformat modifier did it:

{$entry->formatpostdate|date_format:"%d %B %Y"}

gives me extaclty what I wanted.

Cheers!
Mark

[Ulysses]

I eventually found the dateformat code shown on "Extensions > Modules click News or Help..." mark mentioned on line 81 of modules/news/News.module.php and changed it to:

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$this->CreateParameter('dateformat', '%D %j %M %Y', $this->lang('helpdateformat'));

but this did not work.

In which file and where exactly should one make this mod.

Thanks