<xen:date>

[Valhalla]

I'm trying to display a date and time in an absolute format (not relative) using a UNIX time value. For what reason might this expression not work in a template?

<xen:date time="{$conversation.message_date}" />

The {$conversation.message_date} value is a UNIX time stamp.

I expected this to work, but I get an error upon saving the template.

 

[Chris D]

There are a few variations on xen syntax for date/time.

This should work:

{xen:datetime $conversation.message_date, absolute}

 

[Valhalla]

Works fine, thanks.

 

[Kintaro]

@Chris D is there a way to output the "raw" unix utc timestamp?

EDIT:
FOUND!
XF 1.1 - Output Raw Unix Timestamp in a Template

p.s. Even without replying... thank you @Chris D !

 

[Robert9]

Funny question.

In some countries we want d.m.Y, but for US we have m.d.Y;
Is there a function for that? Probably not, because from where it should know which language we speak.
So i have to do this with a phrase. But how i can pass the values of date timestamp, "d.w.Y" to a phrase, please?
At least d and w needs to be passed to one phrase to change the position for englisch and french for example.