Adding the year to a news posting

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:05 pm

Ok, if you look at everybody's home page, you will see that the year does not display. Here's what you normally see:

Quote:

Wednesday, July 19 @ 22:39:31

How do you make the Year display? I think I see the function in mainfile.php but I do not know how to change that to display the year also.

I would like to see:

Quote:

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 @ 22:39:31

Or even just mm/dd/yy format would be cool.

Any help with this?

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:09 pm

It displays on this site so I guess it might be theme related. The full date should be available but it would depend on whether the whole variable was echo'd to the page

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:23 pm

It displays on this site??

I just copied the below from Raven's newest article on the home page:

Quote:

Posted by Raven on Wednesday, July 19 @ 09:45:51 EDT (21 reads)

No year.

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:24 pm

And this is copied from your site:

Quote:

Posted by Guardian on Wednesday, July 19 @ 06:54:41 BST (1 reads)

No year.

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:45 pm

In language/lang-english.php

Find:
define("_DATESTRING","%A, %B %d @ %T %Z");

Change to:
define("_DATESTRING","%A, %B %d, %Y @ %T %Z");

Just a simple syntax check was necessary, all that looking Laughing

The function is called from index.php of the News module.

Function formatTimestamp()
Its defined in mainfile.php

And its format is linked to a language definition, for anyone who could improve or would simply like to know.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:48 am

Thanks darklord! I never thought to simply check a language file. Rolling Eyes