How to remove time

[Fjellfinn2]

When I publish an article,
I publish title, author and date, like this:

Supert nyskiføre atti Ogjerdhøylua
Skrevet av Fjellfinn
mandag 24. november 2008 00:00

I really dont need the time,
what is the proper method to "remove" this?

In fact, this will do:
24. november 2008

[devilboy_1989]

Hi
Go to "Content" - "Article Manager" then click the "Parameters" and check the "Hide" Option button for "Created Date and Time" and your Time will be vanished from your article..
And Check Menu Item is set to Use Global or not

Hope this helps
Thanks

[Fjellfinn2]

your Time will be vanished from your article..

Thanks

I know my english really sucks....

OK, once more, ,I want :

mandag 24. november 2008

NOT
mandag 24. november 2008 00:00

I want to remove the 00:00 (and mandag if poosible)

Just:
24. november 2009

Thanks

[Trinners]

Go to your language file. For example: /administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.ini and change line 11:

DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%A, %d %B %Y %H:%M

to

DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%d %B %Y

See http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_chang ... _format%3F.

[farmeunit]

Go to your language file. For example: /administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.ini and change line 11:

DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%A, %d %B %Y %H:%M

to

DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%d %B %Y

I tried this, but it's still the same format. Does it only affect new articles, or should I do something else for it to take effect?

Edit: I'm using Joomla 1.5.9 with Teline template if that makes a difference.

[mandville]

Go to your language file. For example: /administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.ini and change line 11:

DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%A, %d %B %Y %H:%M

to

DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%d %B %Y

See http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_chang ... _format%3F.

that affects ONLY the English, not the DE version, you have to replicate it through the language files

[farmeunit]

Actually English is the only language I have installed, but thanks for reply.

[6einteractive]

The above solution is correct but has one error.

The directory is not: /administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.ini

Rather: /language/en-GB/en-GB.ini The language directory under your main Joomla install.

I had the same issue.

[kadded]

No need to hack the core, simply override the com_content (apologies for the lengthy explanation, yet done so all know howto).

Basically, you can override the way the content is shown by overriding it. If you have a menu linking to a category/blog layout, you will need to override this by adding a blog_item.php in your template.
If you have e.g. section/blog, you'll have to modify the appropriate file for that. Not all too hard once you understand the following:

Following is only to override the category/blog layout, so here it goes:

1. Checking for folders
Check your template folder (through ftp or whatever) and check if there is a folder 'html'. If not, create the folder 'html'.
Check if there is a folder within the html folder called 'com_content', if not create also this folder.
Check if there is a folder within this 'com_content' folder called 'category', if not again create this one as well.


Check if there a file in the folder 'category' called blog_item.php,
2. if so do the following:
Check for the line

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<?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->created, JText::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC2')); ?>

(with me that was on line 98.)
Change this into:

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<?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->created, JText::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC1')); ?>

Done!

3. if not do the following:
Get a 'fresh' blog_item.php (see later on this post). Meaning: create a file called 'blog_item.php' with the regular code in it (again see later down this post).
Modify

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<?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->created, JText::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC2')); ?>

into

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<?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->created, JText::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC1')); ?>

Upload to the folder html>com_content>category>blog_item.php
Done!

To sum it up:
In both cases you end up adding/modifying the file blog_item.php and call a different format as defined in the language file, this time with no core hacks. You end up with a file in your template folder (html>com_content>category>blog_item.php) that overrides and uses a different way of displaying the time.


What is does:
Changing from DATE_FORMAT_LC2 to DATE_FORMAT_LC1, does nothing more than calling the parameters as defined in your en-GB.ini file. In other words, in that file (the ones others recommended to hack) it is coded how your date should be displayed. You could indeed change that file and change the way it displays, but as others pointed out, when upgrading you will have to go through this process again. And core hacking is generally speaking to be avoided.
And there's no real reason to do so, cause you're able to use another format as it is defined in the language file.

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DATE_FORMAT_LC=%A, %d %B %Y
DATE_FORMAT_LC1=%A, %d %B %Y
DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%A, %d %B %Y %H:%M
DATE_FORMAT_LC3=%d %B %Y
DATE_FORMAT_LC4=%d.%m.%y
DATE_FORMAT_JS1=y-m-d

The data format 'DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%A, %d %B %Y %H:%M' indeed shows month, year... but the same file also defines the DATE_FORMAT_LC1=%A, %d %B %Y which happens not to show the time.
So changing the DATE_FORMAT_LC2 to DATE_FORMAT_LC1 in your blog_item.php solves the problem without any core hacks.

[diresolutions]

This last option worked beautifully. Thanks for posting!

[mandville]

dont forget changes made to the core "may" be overwritten during upgrades

[imaginebeing]

OMG! so helpful! For me though, this was under the root /language/en-GB/en-GB.ini not under /administrator/

[coalaweb]

Very informative and helpful post

The options below are great to keep as a reference I find depending on the client and the site I have to update my templates accordingly so it's worth keeping it handy.

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DATE_FORMAT_LC=%A, %d %B %Y
DATE_FORMAT_LC1=%A, %d %B %Y
DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%A, %d %B %Y %H:%M
DATE_FORMAT_LC3=%d %B %Y
DATE_FORMAT_LC4=%d.%m.%y
DATE_FORMAT_JS1=y-m-d

Thanks