Message: 1
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:04:35 -0500
From: erik hopp <drupal@mediamutiny.org>
Subject: Re: [themes] style date differently
To: A list for theme developers <themes@drupal.org>
Message-ID: <439FD213.8030107@mediamutiny.org>
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try something like this:

put this at the top of the node.tpl.php or wherever you need it...

<?php format_date($node->created, 'custom', 'D M d Y') ?>

hope it helps... i actually have almost no idea what i'm talking about
and its 3am!!!!!

erik.

david hodgkins wrote:
> (I've spent a couple hours trying this on my own, but to no avail.)
>
> On my theme Connections, I need to have the date styled differently. It
> should be:
> day date month year,
> Wed Dec 14 2005 or
> D M d(or j) Y
>
> I have no idea what to change, or how to change it. (I have a funny
> feeling that template.php plays a roll in this.)
>
> While I would have loved to come up with an answer on my own, I don't
> think I can. The documentation in the handbook is poor.
>
> The function in the api is at
> http://drupaldocs.org/api/4.6/function/format_date
>
> I'd appreciate it if someone could help me with this.
>
> ~silverwing