need help on post date display

Okay so I've changed most of the code to use theme functions now, so you could just implement in your theme a function like this for example :

function garland_post_time($post) {
	$contents  = "<span class='tribune-first-clock' title='id=". $post['id'] ."'>";
	$contents .= date('H:i d/m/Y', tribune_date_to_timestamp(tribune_date_to_localdate($post['post_time'])));
	$contents .= "</span>\n";
	return $contents;
}

This displays post time as "13:07 17/11/2008". Of course, post matching with clocks will not work as well, though, unless you include $post['clock'] somewhere.

Please tell me if it worked :)

What theme are you using?

There should be a file called template.php in your theme's directory (if it doesn't exist, I think you should just create it), append this code to it:

function phptemplate_post_time($post) {
    $timestamp = tribune_date_to_timestamp(tribune_date_to_localdate($post['post_time']));

    $contents  = "<span class='tribune-first-clock' title='id=". $post['id'] ."'>";
    $contents .= date('H:i d/m/Y', $timestamp);
    $contents .= "</span>\n";

    return $contents;
}

... there are howtos and documentation about overriding theme functions in Drupal.org handbooks, but I can't look for them now.

This template.php file should be located in <site root>/themes/<theme name>/template.php, I think

Hmm, are you sure you haven't touched anything other than your theme's template.php file? Because in no way could this cause this problem... maybe you should try to download the latest version and replace all the files in your modules/tribune folder.

Well, I suppose it's fine then... doing it with a theme override would have prevented problems when updating the module, though

This is all fixed in 7.x-3.x.