Display published time Topic is solved

[xgipper]

Hello
Articles on my J3.10.3 news site display the date they are published at the top, but not the time published, which I would like.
(If I ask them to they also display the date last modified, but I don't usually use that).
But I can't find an option to display time published, just date and time under Content > Articles.
Am I missing a setting somewhere, or might this be a template issue that I need to look into (or something else)? It was built with Themler.
Thanks

[sozzled]

You can do this with a language override.

Go to Extensions » Languages » Override and select the language you wish to create an override for, e.g. English (United Kingdom) - Site.

Now search for the constant DATE_FORMAT_LC3, which probably has the value

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d F Y

and change it to

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d F Y H:m

Save the override and refresh the article at the frontend.

[xgipper]

Thank you. That worked for me. And I switched the month and day around and added a comma. I may try to change it to am/pm rather than 24hr clock: can this be done in the same way? Dare I ask, can months and days of the week be abbreviated using this method to take up less space? Cheers.

[xgipper]

Although having said that it worked, the 'minutes' past the hour don't seem to correspond with the 'start publishing' minutes past the hour in the back end, which seems odd.

[sozzled]

Thank you. That worked for me. And I switched the month and day around and added a comma. I may try to change it to am/pm rather than 24hr clock: can this be done in the same way? Dare I ask, can months and days of the week be abbreviated using this method to take up less space? Cheers.

Yes to all of those questions.

See PHP date formats here: https://cheatography.com/unclepips/chea ... /php-date/

[xgipper]

Any clues as to why might the published time in the front end not quite match that in the back end, please? The date and hour seems correct, but the minutes seem generally wrong. (I put"F d, Y H:m" as the override.)

[sozzled]

As you will see from the date format "cheat sheet" that I referred to in my previous post, the format I posted previously was wrong. Instead of "m" for minutes, it should have been "i". "m" is the numeric representation of the month! Therefore, to fix your issue, the format should be changed to read

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F d, Y H:i

[xgipper]

Excellent. I believe that has fixed it - and the cheat sheet has also enabled me to change some other formats around to suit my preference. Thank you.