How to display date without time?

By courtney on 12 Aug 2004 at 11:05 UTC

hi,

i'm trying to customize my theme to display just the date on entries, and not include the time. it looks like i'll have to customize the format_date function in the common.inc file, but i'm not sure exactly how to do it. has anyone done this before?

thanks,
courtney

Comments

how to not display time?

courtney commented 23 August 2004 at 11:39

hi,

still trying to figure this out and thought i would check back...also seems like something that should be configureable. should i submit an issue/request?

courtney

custom dates

bluedropstudios commented 28 August 2004 at 21:45

courtney,

in custom.inc, format_date() also takes a 'custom' argument as one of the parameters. to have just the date, you would call format_date with something like the following:

&lt;?php
$date_type = 'custom';
$custom_type = 'm/d/Y';
print format_date($timestamp,$date_type,$custom_type);
?&gt;

the m/d/Y would give you the month/day/year for the specified timestamp. if you would like to use other fields, check out the PHP manual page for the date function, which gives a table for other fields you might want to use, such as day name, etc. that URL is: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php.

hope that helps!

jeremy - the linux web guy