XF 1.2 Time display format

[Andy.N]

I'd like to display the time in a format that is a bit controllable. Right now, I have an addon where the time is displayed relatively.
So I have

3 minutes ago
Today at 4:15 AM
Yesterday at 2:39 PM
Monday at 1:23 PM

As you can see, it's hard to control the width of the column for this output as it varies greatly.
Is there a different format that I can apply to this addon only so that they can be more consistent.

Thank you

 

[Jeremy]

Try removing the "DateTime" class from the HTML (you may need to stop using <xen:datetime /> to accomplish this). It should remove the JavaScript binding that works to make them relative.

 

[Andy.N]

Try removing the "DateTime" class from the HTML (you may need to stop using <xen:datetime /> to accomplish this). It should remove the JavaScript binding that works to make them relative.

Here is the pice that shows it
{xen:datetime {$post.post_date}}

if I remove xen:datetime, it will display in unix date 12324312312

 

[Jeremy]

Try:

{xen:datetime {$post.post_date}, absolute}

 

[Andy.N]

Try:

{xen:datetime {$post.post_date}, absolute}

Everything shows as
Aug 15, 2013 at 11:01 AM which is much longer. Is there some way to format it as
8/15 at 11:01 AM

 

[Paul B]

Click on the language and change the format there.

That is a global setting though.

 

[Jeremy]

You will either have to write your own helper to format it individually here, or globally change the date format; it runs off of the language settings.

 

[Andy.N]

Thank you both. Is it possible to use the 24 hour time format?

 

[Mike]

You can use {xen:date $x, 'format'} and/or {xen:time $x, 'format'} with the "format" value being a PHP date()-style formatter to output a specific format.

This is getting very advanced now though...

 

[Andy.N]

You can use {xen:date $x, 'format'} and/or {xen:time $x, 'format'} with the "format" value being a PHP date()-style formatter to output a specific format.

This is getting very advanced now though...

Ah, you gave me the good pointer to get on it. Thanks Mike.

 

[ReneHermi]

Guys, @Brogan already told it It´s much more easier and fully controlable via acp

 

[Jeremy]

That changes it globally, this thread was about changing the format in a single instance.