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Hi,

sorry for asking such a basic question, but... I am searching for one hour now without finding a solution.

How do I change the date format?
a) for component
b) for the modules (i.e. latest items module)

I tried to change all language files I found without success.

It seems there is a lot of confusion concerning this topic. I read several threads but without finding a solution. Maybee we could create a thread to solve this topice once for all.

Thank you!

You can change the date format in the template files or in the language file.
In the template fiels you can change K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2 to K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2 or K2_DATE_FORMAT to choose other formats.

And in the language file you can change in the format itself, for example, you can change the separator or the ordering of date parts.

I use Joomla 2.5. and for me worked this:

I understand that in item.php and category-item.php I can change the date style. But in my case I did not chane anything. I left this date style K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2. In the modules the same style is used.
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For the items and category views I changed this file:
/administrator/languages/en-GB/en-GB.com_k2.j16.ini
or your specific website language, like spanish:
/administrator/languages/es-ES/es-ES.com_k2.j16.ini
I changed this line: K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2="d F Y"

All other language files I changed did not show any efects
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But I do not know how to change the date format of the modules? I spent 3 hours without success.
How to change the date format of k2 content module? Please give us a detailed answer.

Thank you!

I thinki you don't modify the correct file, you need to modify this file:
/languages/en-GB/en-GB.com_k2.ini
/languages/en-GB/en-GB.mod_k2_content.ini

You can read this page: php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php for more details about the available parameters and their description

The contetn module shows this date

Publicado el Viernes, 19 Abril 2013 09:34

when I delete the file es-ES.mod_k2_content.ini the date format stays the same as you can see below, only the K2_WRITTEN_ON=".." changes.

Written on Viernes, 19 Abril 2013 09:34

And in the es-ES.mod_k2_content.ini-file I have this code:
K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2="%d %B %Y "
K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC="%A, %d %B %Y"
So Hour and Minutes sould not be displayes, but they are dispalyed as you can see above.

This means that the date format for the module has to be modified in an other file, but which one?

Thank you.

Hi,

after long time I found out how to solve this.

In spanish language the date is written like this, 4 de Enero 2013.

So how to add te "de"??
p.e.
JANUARY="Enero"
to
JANUARY="de Enero"

The corresponend language file is the following /languages/es-ES(or other)/es-ES.ini.

But it is better to make a language override.

I made a language override in the Joomla admin: /Joomla > Extensions > Language manager > Overrides

there I worte for example:
JANNUARY de Enero

Ok, yo lo resolví de la siguiente manera:

Agregué: K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2, a los Overrides de mi página, según el idioma de que se trate...

Valor: l, j \d\e F \d\e Y, \a \l\a\s g:i:s a

Esto me dá como resultado: Domingo, 1 de Diciembre de 2013 a las 11:18:26 am

Espero que alguine más lo pueda utilizar...

¡Saludos y bendiciones...

Hi,

I also have the Problem that I would like to change the date format of
K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2 from
"%A, %d %B %Y %H:%M"
to
"%A, %d %B %Y | %H:%M"
but everything I tried went wrong. I changed all Keys I found called K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2 but none of them changed the date format in the frontend comment module...
Where do I have to look for rhe right file?

You have to change the K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2 in the en-GB.mod_k2_comments.ini file as well.

I'm sorry but even if I change it in both files there is no result in the module in frontend.

Have you chosen the Absolute or relative option for your comment date?

Absolute... but if I chose relative i get very strange looking date like this: 2013-12-28 10:00:49
Thats no relative time stamp in my opinion, is it?

Do you use overrides for this module?

no

Clean your site's and browser's cache and check again.

I found the files I have to change now:

Its in the de-DE.mod_k2.j16.ini for the module output and in the de-DE.com_k2.j16.ini for the component output.
Both files are in the administrator > language folder...

So now i want to add some text to the translation. But the way I did it was not accepted... Why not?

I changed
K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2="l, d F Y H:i"
into
K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2="l, d F Y um H:i"
and the output is like
auf Donnerstag, 30 Januar 2014 00000001 11:52.

Why?

You can't have words other than date parameters in this date language definition.

In case you need to add words I'm afraid that you have to break your date in two definitions, like

K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2="l, d F Y"
K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC3="H:i"

and also change the file mod_k2_comments/comments.php (better create an template override of the module and make the modification there. Just copy the mod_k2_comments/tmpl/comments.php to templates/your_template/html/mod_k2_comments/).

Then locate this

<?php echo JText::_('K2_ON'); ?> <?php echo JHTML::_('date', $comment->commentDate, JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2')); ?>

and change it to this

<?php echo JText::_('K2_ON'); ?> <?php echo JHTML::_('date', $comment->commentDate, JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2')); ?> um <?php echo JHTML::_('date', $comment->commentDate, JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC3')); ?>

Ok thanks so far. That works for the module output. But how can i change the same thing in the component output? I tried to change the item.php in com_k2 > templates > default as i did for some other changes before but the code you told me doesn't work over here, even though the code seems to be the same as in the comments.php.

Did you update the language files de-DE.com_k2.ini with the new language definitions as well?

Yes!


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