Issue: Modified Date is Showing Current Date? Topic is solved

[gaussian]

After a recent Joomla update, the dateModified code now displays the current date rather than the article's modified date. Example code below, which is showing today's date rather than date modified.

In 13 years of using Joomla, I've never seen this issue!

Anyone else seeing it happen?

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<time datetime="<?php echo HTMLHelper::_('date', $displayData['item']->modified, 'c'); ?>" itemprop="dateModified">
<?php echo Text::sprintf('COM_CONTENT_LAST_UPDATED', HTMLHelper::_('date', $displayData['item']->modified, Text::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC3'))); ?>
</time>

[gaussian]

Does anyone have ideas on how to troubleshoot or fix this issue?

[ceford]

I can't reproduce your problem. Copied from Article Details:

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    Published: 06 October 2023 
    Created: 04 October 2023 
    Last Updated: 05 October 2023 

Can you open your #__content table with phpMyAdmin and see what the actual dates are for a specific item?

[gaussian]

I can't reproduce your problem. Copied from Article Details:

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    Published: 06 October 2023 
    Created: 04 October 2023 
    Last Updated: 05 October 2023 

Can you open your #__content table with phpMyAdmin and see what the actual dates are for a specific item?

Hi - thanks for the reply! I think you can't reproduce because we use Cloudflare CDN, which is caching an earlier date. But if we clear that cache, it shows the current date.

I looked in the content table and it shows the true modified date (even after clearing cache and reloading the page). So there is something about the code (above) I'm using to pull modified date that is suddenly (since the most recent update) working incorrectly and showing the current date.

Any possible fix that you can think of? Or troubleshooting for the code?

[ceford]

I pasted your code into a template override at cassiopeia/html/com_content/article/default.php and it does inded display the current date and time. The reason is that $displayData is NULL so the HTMHelper call returns the current date and time. With the following I get the correct modified data:

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<time datetime="<?php echo HTMLHelper::_('date', $this->item->modified, 'c'); ?>" itemprop="dateModified">
<?php echo Text::sprintf('COM_CONTENT_LAST_UPDATED', HTMLHelper::_('date', $this->item->modified, Text::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC3'))); ?>
</time>

[gaussian]

I pasted your code into a template override at cassiopeia/html/com_content/article/default.php and it does inded display the current date and time. The reason is that $displayData is NULL so the HTMHelper call returns the current date and time. With the following I get the correct modified data:

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<time datetime="<?php echo HTMLHelper::_('date', $this->item->modified, 'c'); ?>" itemprop="dateModified">
<?php echo Text::sprintf('COM_CONTENT_LAST_UPDATED', HTMLHelper::_('date', $this->item->modified, Text::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC3'))); ?>
</time>

Thank you for helping! Sourcerer doesn't like the use of '$this' but it seems to work otherwise.

[gaussian]

For those looking to do something similar to this (embed article modified date in a module so you can customize its look/feel), I suggest using the Articles Anywhere plugin.