belsonc

(Not sure if this is the right forum, so if it isn't, mod, please move at your leisure.)

Hey all - I've been with surpass for a couple of weeks now, and I've done a good job of keeping up with my blog, thankyouverymuch.

The one thing that bothers me about it, though, is that I can't seem to figure out where the setting for the date format is in the php files on my account. I'm American, so I'd rather see October 2 represented as 10.2 on the blog and not 2.10. I've tried to look up information online on how to change it, but I can't seem to find the stuff they're referring to - so with that, I turn to you, the Surmunity. Anyone familiar with how to go about changing this?

TIA...

-CB


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Rick

Login to the admin section of your nucleus install.

First we need to edit the Template's index file...
On the menu on the left, click "Templates".
You should now see a list of files, find "default/index" and click the "edit" action.
Now scroll down and look for the "Date and Time" section.
Under this section is a field "Date Format" which probably contains "%d/%m", change this to "%m/%d".
Then scroll to the bottom and click "Update Template".

Now we need to edit the Template's item file...
On the menu on the left, click "Templates".
You should now see a list of files, find "default/item" and click the "edit" action.
Now scroll down and look for the "Date and Time" section.
Under this section is a field "Date Format" which probably contains "%d/%m", change this to "%m/%d".
Then scroll to the bottom and click "Update Template".

If you want to get fancy, you can use the following to customize your date and time formats:

• %a - abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale
• %A - full weekday name according to the current locale
• %b - abbreviated month name according to the current locale
• %B - full month name according to the current locale
• %c - preferred date and time representation for the current locale
• %d - day of the month as a decimal number (range 00 to 31)
• %H - hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23)
• %I - hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12)
• %j - day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366)
• %m - month as a decimal number (range 1 to 12)
• %M - minute as a decimal number
• %p - either `am' or `pm' according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale
• %S - second as a decimal number
• %U - week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week
• %W - week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week
• %w - day of the week as a decimal, Sunday being 0
• %x - preferred date representation for the current locale without the time
• %X - preferred time representation for the current locale without the date
• %y - year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99)
• %Y - year as a decimal number including the century
• %Z - time zone or name or abbreviation
• %% - a literal `%' character

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belsonc

Rick, would you believe that my friend and I couldn't find that because we were both looking in the file manager of cPanel, not in Nucleus in and of itself?

"Dammit, why can't I find what they're talking about in any of these PHP files?"




Much obliged, sir - I'll definitely be bookmarking this thread.

-CB

fury

Somewhat unrelated, but I am using Wordpress and I had an issue with the date on my blog.

When I first started making posts, it only listed the DATE and TIME for the first post of each day. The way my theme (made it myself) formats the posts, it has the date and time on each post. I looked this up in the Codex for WP and I read that I just have to put the full date and time code (Unix format) into the time display format setting for Wordpress. Ok, so I did that and it showed the date and time as I wanted it to on each post on the blog index.

However, the date and time on comments are displayed like:

Tuesday October 7th, 2008 at Tuesday October 7th, 2008 at 10:29pm

Reason for this is because it is showing the date stamp, and the time stamp, and the time stamp is set to show the date and the time, to fix the issue on the index. So I searched around in the code (took a while) and I found a page that did the time stamp stuff on the comments. I was able to get rid of the DATE, so it shows the only the time stamp, which is the DATE and the TIME. However, it shows up like this:

at Tuesday October 7th, 2008 at 10:29pm

I cannot for the life of me find where the first "at" comes from. Anyone have any ideas?

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Rick

In the WordPress default theme there is a 'comment.php' file which contains the following code...

I suspect your customized theme is based on this or a similiar theme. Even though you may have suppressed the date format (but included it in the time format) in the admin, the theme itself is still displaying "at" between the two formats.

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fury

That fixed it! You're my new favorite helper on the forum

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