Posted in: Computers
Date: October 15, 2009
Formatting the date and time in joomla is very easy.
Inside your module or component you might see some code that looks like this:
JText::_('%a, %B %d %Y at %l:%M %p')
Or this..
JText::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC2')
In the first example, each of the % signs followed by a letter indicates what is to displayed. The above example will display: Thur, October 15 2009 at 4:59 PM. Here is a reference to what these date and time symbols do:
%a - Abbreviated Day of the Week
%A - Full Name Day of the Week
%H - Hour 00 to 24
%l - Hour 1 to 12
%h - Hour 1 to 12
%m - Numerical Month (01 to 12)
%B - Textual Name of Month
%d - Numerical Day
%Y - 4 Digit Year
%y - 2 Digit Year
%M - Minutes
%S - Seconds
%p - AM or PM
Something to take note of is that I couldn't get %l and %h to work on my localhost installation. It does work on my remote installation, and I'm not exactly sure why.
In the second example, a universal time format is used. These formats are specified in the /joomla/language/en-GB/en-GB.ini/ file. If you want to create your own custom date format, open up the file and create something like this:
HARVEST_CUSTOM_DATE_FORMAT = %B %d, %Y
Now you can substitute the variable wherever you want that date format:
JText::_('HARVEST_CUSTOM_DATE_FORMAT')