Date format in Drupal 7 articles

Posted by macelee on December 23, 2012 at 7:56am

The articles I created in Drupal 7 has the following at the beginning:

Submitted by xxxxxx on Sat, 12/08/2012 - 08:43

I want the date format to be: 2012-12-08 as the format above causes confusion to my readers from many countries.

I already set in Configuration -> Date and time my preferred format as below:

Long: Sunday, December 23, 2012 - 07:53
Medium: Sun, 2012-12-23 07:53
Short: 2012-12-23 07:53

But this does not seem to have any effect in article pages. Any suggestions? Thanks

Comments

Posted by screenack on December 23, 2012 at 3:55pm

This is a rich discussion on the idea above:

Posted by macelee on December 23, 2012 at 7:18pm

Thanks for directing me to some useful discussions. I hacked the theme I am using to achieve what I want.

Basically, in the "templates/node.tpl.php" file in the theme I am using, I find the relevant bit of code:
<?php print $submitted; ?>

I replaced it with:
<?php print "Submitted by $name on ". date("Y-m-d H:i", $created); ?>