Locale Specific Time Formatting

Question

I'm wondering if there are any time formats in Joomla? I see JText::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC?').
Is there nothing comparable for times?

Answer 1

You can find different formats in yoursite/language/en-GB/en-GB.ini
something like this:

DATE_FORMAT_LC="l, d F Y"
DATE_FORMAT_LC1="l, d F Y"
DATE_FORMAT_LC2="l, d F Y H:i"
DATE_FORMAT_LC3="d F Y"
DATE_FORMAT_LC4="Y-m-d"
DATE_FORMAT_JS1="y-m-d"

Regards.

Answer 2

In your code you could use something like this:

$date = JFactory::getDate();    
echo $date->calendar('j F Y', false, true);

With the calendar method you can use the PHP date format characters to format accordingly.

Other option:

JFactory::getDate()->format('%a %d %b %Y - %H:%M');

Read more:

• Joomla JDate documentation
• Joomla JDate API