How to make a long date short

**KristianK** · 02/05/2012, 21:51

Hello there forum

I'm having a bit of difficulty formatting the date in my templates.

What I'm getting now is:

16pm29Europe/Copenhagen(16-02-2012) (19:00 - 21:00)

Where I want to have this:

16-02-2012 (19:00 - 12:00)

So in all, I want to get rid of the "16pm29Europe/Copenhagen" in front of the date, but I can't seem to figure out how :/

**ga.n** · 02/05/2012, 22:12

Originally Posted by KristianK

Hello there forum
I'm having a bit of difficulty formatting the date in my templates.
So in all, I want to get rid of the "16pm29Europe/Copenhagen" in front of the date, but I can't seem to figure out how :/

which template are you talking about?

however check the "date format" both in "settings" and in the root page configuration

**KristianK** · 03/01/2012, 21:19

Originally Posted by ga.n

which template are you talking about?

sorry I didn't mention that, but I thought it was the same in all the templates, because they all format as the same. But the template I'm specifically talking about, is the event_default.tpl

I am using these settings:

the root page configuration (am I correct if that is: "root/system/config/config.php"?) is set to the exact same.

**ramjet** · 03/01/2012, 23:48

(am I correct if that is: "root/system/config/config.php"?)

Check root/system/config/dcaconfig.php and root/system/config/localconfig.php

**KristianK** · 03/03/2012, 21:09

the dcaconfig.php only has commented lines in it and both of the files (dcaconfig.php and localconfig.php) has no lines, whatsoever, about dates and timesettings :/

**ramjet** · 03/03/2012, 22:09

I'm having a bit of difficulty formatting the date in my templates.

the template I'm specifically talking about, is the event_default.tpl

Have you modified this template already ? (that is: is this template present under Templates?)
Or are you using some extension that affects Events output?
Perhaps post the code of the template event_default.tpl here.

**KristianK** · 03/14/2012, 20:52

I made a mistake earlier: The template I'm talking about is the event_full.tpl, which I have not modified.
Another template that does the same is my eventlist, which I've modified and you can see the code of the template below:

Code:

<?php if ($this->header): ?>
<div class="event layout_list<?php echo $this->classList; ?>">
<a href="<?php echo $this->href; ?>" title="<?php echo $this->title; ?> (<?php if ($this->day): echo $this->day; ?>, <?php endif; echo $this->date; if ($this->time): ?>, <?php echo $this->time; endif; ?>)" <?php echo $this->target; ?>>
<?php echo $this->link; ?> (<?php echo $this->firstDateShort; if ($this->firstDay): ?> <?php if ($this->time || $this->span): echo $this->time . $this->span; endif;?>)</a><?php endif; ?>  
</div>

<?php endif; ?>

"firstDateShort" is my attempt to make the date better, but nothing is working :/