By timotool on

I know that forum is the weakest point of Drupal.

One thing I hate is the created date.
Instead of showing "September 26, 2004" it says "3 years 2 days ago".
Is there a way to show the date (Sep 27, 2004) instead of counting dates and weeks?

Thank you very much.

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nevets commented

To override the format of the "Created" column you can override the theme function theme_forum_topic_list, copy the function to your themes template.php file (you may need to create one, if you create one remember to add <?php as th first line of the file). Paste in the copied function and rename phptemplate_forum_topic_list.

In the function you will find the line

array('data' => _forum_format($topic), 'class' => 'created'),

Change the call to _forum_format to a new function (one you will add to template.php so it should probably reflect the theme name). You can look at _form_format in forum.module to get an idea how it should work.