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Hello, I am putting together a news archive, and I have created a channel just for those entries. In that channel I have a template setup, a with a custom field group. IN the field group I have in order:
    • a ‘date field’ for a the date the news release was posted
    • a ‘Text Input Field’ for the title of the news release
    • a ‘Textarea’ field that contains the body of the news release.

(3 fields in all for the template) I am calling the 3 fields in the template with the following code:

{exp:channel:entries channel="pressreleasearchive"}
   <h1>{title}</h1>
 <strong>{DateOfEntry}</strong>




  <h2>{pressReleaseTitle}</h2>
<p>  {PressReleaseBody}<br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

http://grounded4life2.dyndns.tv/onami/pics/dateField.png

When i preview the entry on the page, I get this:

http://grounded4life2.dyndns.tv/onami/pics/dateFieldHmm.png

The date comes in as the number ‘1102195443’ and not a date at all?

What could i be doing wrong? The rest of the fields in the field group work fine. I COULD change it to a standard text input field, but i will need to sort entries by date.

More info:
    • In my entry edit page, I have the date field set to ‘fixed’, (but i tried ‘localized’ with no success as well)
    • I use the calendar picker to select the date, since the field is very sensitive to the format of the date
   

Any help would be appreciated!
Thx,
Ed

[Mod Edit: Moved to the EE 2 Technical Support forum]

Hi Ed,

You need to tell EE how you want the date formatted (the number you’re seeing is the raw, Unix timestamp I think).

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/templates/date_variable_formatting.html

So you’ll probably need to put something like:

{DateOfEntry format="%F %d %Y"}

Hope that works,
Paul.

FIXED thanks!!!!

Excellent news. Please post again as needed.