Date format British needed

[j_chakraverty]

Got up and running a new installation of OSCOMMARCE

I realised I could cahnge currecny, language, flag etc. but the entire site works on US date format mm/dd/yyyy

My country strictly adherces to the british date format dd/mm/yyyy

How can I impliment that change in my installation.

This feature is absolute esential and so much so that I shall be forrced to rewrite a new software just because this feature can be implimented. I hope there is a quick solution somewhere

[cilia]

Will this post help, perhaps:

 

Incorrect Birthdate format

[siavash]

1. open catalog/includes/languages/english.php

2. find

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US.ISO_8859-1');

define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%m/%d/%Y');  // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y'); // this is used for date()
define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');

////
// Return date in raw format
// $date should be in format mm/dd/yyyy
// raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY
function tep_date_raw($date, $reverse = false) {
 if ($reverse) {
   return substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4);
 } else {
   return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2);
 }
}

 

and change it like this:

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_UK.ISO_8859-1');

define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%d/%m/%Y');  // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT', 'd/m/Y'); // this is used for date()
define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');

////
// Return date in raw format
// $date should be in format dd/mm/yyyy
// raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY
function tep_date_raw($date, $reverse = false) {
 if ($reverse) {
   return substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4);
 } else {
   return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2);
 }
}

 

and then find this :

// text for date of birth example
define('DOB_FORMAT_STRING', 'mm/dd/yyyy');

and change it to

// text for date of birth example
define('DOB_FORMAT_STRING', 'dd/mm/yyyy');

 

then look for this:

define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_ERROR', 'Your Date of Birth must be in this format: MM/DD/YYYY (eg 05/21/1970)');
define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_TEXT', '* (eg. 05/21/1970)');

and change it to this:

define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_ERROR', 'Your Date of Birth must be in this format: DD/MM/YYYY (eg 21/05/1970)');
define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_TEXT', '* (eg. 21/05/1970)');

 

i have done it and it works fine.

[lama69]

I have a similar problem with french date. I checked the content of french.php but @setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fr_FR.ISO_8859-1'); is correct.

 

But I always the name of days and months appear in english on screen instead of french?

 

Could you help me?

Thanks

[gazzzzzza]

what is the french date format lama69?

[siavash]

i think lama69 is talking about the counter date at the right bottom rather than date in sign up/create account! he might be refering to the day and months showing in english rather than french!

[siavash]

th esetlocale for french as you say is correct!

 

try this see what happens!

 

@setlocale (LC_TIME, "fr_FR");

 

alternatively something like the following may work:

 

$locale = 'fr_FR.ISO8859-1';
do {
 $locale_result = setlocale(LC_TIME, $locale);
} while ($locale_result != $locale);

 

or something like that! i'm not a programmer so please BACK UP and double check this.

 

hope it helps.

[tlepine]

No, this doesn't work at all, and I have the exact same problem...

[♥Vger]

In your osCommerce control panel, under Configuration --> Customer Details, why don't you just turn Date Of Birth from 'true' to 'false' ? And while you're there do the same for 'Business' and 'Suburb'

 

Vger

[Guest]

No, this doesn't work at all, and I have the exact same problem...

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Give this a try: http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?sho...ndpost&p=525791