Displaying XenForo Date & Time

[Golden Falcon]

Hello. I'm trying to display the current date and time in a theme.

What I originally did was just make a PHP file:

  public static function getHtml() {
        $today = date("l , F j - g:i a");
       
        //Sunday , August 31 - 8:09 am
        return $today;
  }

And then using a <xen:callback> block.

I realized after that this was bad because it didn't take account the member's different timezones, so I'm going to assume this will just display the server time, which I don't want.

I see there is this

<xen:date time="$datetime" />

But it doesn't work when I try to put it into a header file. I'm trying to wrap the user's current time inside a <span>

Thank you

 

[AndyB]

You will need to post this in the template:

{xen:datetime $var}

Where $var is a Unix timestamp.

 

[Golden Falcon]

Thanks,

Is Unix timestamp the same as PHP - http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php ?

Can you declare $var in the same template file? Or can you just replace it with a timestamp?

{xen:datetime 'l , F j - g:i a'}<

for example yields "A moment ago..." as the result.

 

[Chris D]

It does need a timestamp as an input. Try this:

{xen:date $serverTime, 'l, F j - g:i a'}

 

[Golden Falcon]

It does need a timestamp as an input. Try this:

{xen:date $serverTime, 'l, F j - g:i a'}

That's perfect. Thanks!