So simple but so hard... changing date format!

[gabbs]

Ok I just can't figure this out. I'm trying to change the date format from MM/DD/YY to DD/MM/YY

 

Now in the english.php i've changed the lines to:

 

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_GB');

 

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');

 

define('DOB_FORMAT_STRING', 'dd/mm/yyyy');

 

Do I need to change anything else? because it still thinks its american dates...

[tigergirl]

Hi there,

It's ages since I changed this but I have a note here:

 

in file includes/languages/english.php there are some numbers like this:

 

3,2 0,2 6,4
6,4 0,2 3,2

change it to 

0,2 3,2 6,4
6,4 3,2 0,2

 

Back up first.

 

There are posts on this but hard to find, you might need to do something in admin too (sorry can't remember) try to search for +date +format

Good luck

[wheeloftime]

Hi there,

It's ages since I changed this but I have a note here:

 

in file includes/languages/english.php there are some numbers like this:

 

3,2 0,2 6,4
6,4 0,2 3,2

change it to 

0,2 3,2 6,4
6,4 3,2 0,2

 

Back up first.

 

There are posts on this but hard to find, you might need to do something in admin too (sorry can't remember) try to search for +date +format

Good luck

What Tigergirls refers to is the tep_raw_date() function in your english.php file.

To have osC show non-us dates you have to change it to:

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);
}
}