Allow entering of custom date format in Views field handlers

I think this is related... I see "Formatter" within the Date field... I would like to select just "Date" not "Date and Time"

Because I did go to my date settings and added a special format. Only to read 'Tue May 15'

But if a user selects a date for an event, say: 'May 15 - 7:00AM" I need to group the Event Dates by Days like Craigslist does: Tue May 15

But within views, if I choose DATE to be the Group, it won't allow me to group dates by Day: Tue May 15
Instead, the views group each event date by Time, i.e. 'Tue May 15 7:00AM'

....which ruins my view

This would be helpful for the Commons distribution as part of #1797490: Implement Featured content block to spec.

Adding the "commonslove" tag.

Why do I have a feeling this was already possible in Views at some point? Confused very much!

Why do I have a feeling this was already possible in Views at some point? Confused very much!

It is for things such as posted/updated dates, but not for date fields provided by the date module.

Attached is a patch that should fix this.

Thanks for this.

Because of the inability to properly put the date formats into features, this patch is badly needed in this module.

Seems to work fine.

Applies cleanly here, works well.

Weird error:
FAILED: [[SimpleTest]]: [MySQL] Repository checkout: failed to checkout from [git://git.drupal.org/project/migrate.git].

Is this RTBC?

Was 6 months ago :)

Let me just put it back.. Thnx!

Patch format not right. Unable to apply this with git.

git apply -v date-allow_entering_of_custom_date_format_in_views_field_handlers-1504202-5.patch
Checking patch date.module...
error: while searching for:
      return 'date_plain';
      break;
    default:
      $format = date_format_type_format($format_type, $langcode);
      break;
  }

Attaching a re-rolled patch.

Awesome, thnx!

This functionality is included in the module, tested on the 7.x-2.8 version.

Not sure what @hamrant is referring to but this feature does not exist in Date yet. He was probably testing with core date properties (created/updated), not user created Field API + Date fields.

The patch in #14 still applies to 7.x-2.x-dev. This provides a really helpful alternative to the rigamarole of creating custom date formats and is more consistent with how Views treats core dates. Marking as RTBC.

I can confirm patch #14 worked. I used it in the latest dev version. This would be a really nice feature in the main module.

+1 for committing, #14 applies and works

#14 worked beautifully, thanks.

Patch #14 works for me too.

#14 is merged. Thanks