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By David Pratt / Tags: date, drupal / 4 Comments / Published: 08-08-09
Should you want to display a user readable version of a Drupal 6 date field, the following code snippet might be of use to you:
<?php echo date("D, j M Y \a\\t G:i", $created_date) ?>For example, if created_date were to equal “1249641973″, it would get rendered as “Fri, 7 Aug 2009 at 11:46″. Nice.
Bob Thomas June 25th, 2010 at 12:23 am
That snippet is neat -
now say that I would like to import the node-created-date field into a spreadsheet – either openoffice suite or MS excel – could you please tell me what sort of formula would to that, “Open sesame!” type of trick?
Glenn May 13th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
hi there, new to drupal and this was really helpful thank you :-)
name March 8th, 2012 at 5:05 pm
Please do not use the “date” function, use the format_date(), is a drupal function :
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!common.inc/function/format_date/7
look the api
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McSleazy February 11th, 2011 at 10:15 am
Thanks.
You could take a step further and put this in your template.php:
<?php function readabledate($enterdate) { $newdate = date("D, j M Y", $enterdate); return $newdate; } ?>Then, whenever you want a readable date, just use ‘readable date’ – such as:
But you probably already knew that. ;)