For each already existing date format, the enclosed patch adds the same date format but without the time part. For an example, in addition to 'Y-m-d H:i' , it also adds 'Y-m-d'.

The reason for this feature request is that the time part can be irrelevant and even undesired on certain sites such as corporate sites and similar. Consider, for an example, a small or medium sized company publishing upcoming events, press releases and similar things one or two times each month. It that case it can look over-ambitious or even silly to state the time within a minute. Just the date would be preferable. For sites like this, it is desirable to be able to choose a date format without the time part. Hence the rationale for the proposed patch.

Another solution would be to give the administrator means to choose between given formats or enter a PHP date format string (http://se2.php.net/date) him-/herself.

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dkaps’s picture

dkaps commented

Pls. bear with me.. I am a bit technically challenged kind of person. Where do I upload (which folder) this patch to. And do I need to extract it.. I mean what do I do after I have uploaded it.

Does it work with Drupal 4.6?

Help greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,
dkaps

dries’s picture

dries commented

Maybe we need to provide separate selection menus for both dates and times? And for times, a 'don't display time' option?

Just looking for a more elegant solution in terms of user experience ...

cerasus’s picture

cerasus commented
Version: x.y.z » 5.x-dev

(changed version to 5.x-dev, dunno if it corresponds to x.y.z in this case)

I think that we should give administrators the freedom to define a custom date format. I'm only saying this because hardcoding proper Hungarian date format is not very elegant, and even making it an option to hide time wouldn't help it.

forngren’s picture

forngren commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work

I agree with cerasus; we should use php's date formating instead of hardcoding values because there will always be some values that is missing.

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forngren commented
Status: Needs work » Closed (duplicate)

http://drupal.org/node/105039