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I get the feeling I’m just missing a setting somewhere, but I haven’t found it yet.

I’m trying to get the forum to display dates in the correct order;  dd/mm rather than mm/dd

I have the Default Time Formatting in System preferences and the localisation settings in the forum preferences set to European

...but in the member list and latest post info it is still Americanised.

Any pointers?

Hi,
in another thread Derek said “you can do this without changing a single line of source code”.

I think he means without changing the core.

To do what you want I have changed some code in theme files.

Example:

/themes/forum_themes/developer/theme_index.php

{last_post format="%m-%d-%Y %h:%i %A"}

I changed this to

{last_post format="%d-%m-%Y %H:%i"}

There are a few other format parameters in other files.
You can do a text file search to find them.

It would be better to have a variable in the language files for such parameters which need to be i18n. I think I will write a feature request for this.

This is the way I go.

I hope this helps you.

I had thought about changing it in the template files, but I thought there must be a better way of changing it in the settings. What does choosing European in the preferences actually change then?

So I suppose that also means there is no way of allowing forum users to select their own date formatting relevant to their country.

Thanks for the help Erdal, and for pointing to that thread.

The changes are for the control panel, not (yet) the forum. In this case, Erdal is correct, modifying the themes is the way to go. And yes, this would certainly make for a very good feature request.

Ingmar, thank you for the clarification.

Jedidiah,

if you search the format parameters do not forget to search also:

"%F %d, %Y  %h:%i %A"

I think using “nbsp” is realy not a very good of layouting in this case, but it is there.
So such parameters should be changed too.

I think searching just

%A

shows all the relevant places for modification.

Thanks Ingmar and Erdal,

That’s a time saver searching for %A

Doesn’t catch the dates on the member profiles though they don’t have the format attribute, just

{recent_forum_post_date}

and

{last_visit_date}