Date on "Specials" showing the year 2036

[frank18]

Hi all,

I am a new Zenner, made a lot of changes and modifications to date, all work well except for this one:

have changed the date format in various files to DD/MM/YYYY to conform with Australian standards. All fine until I set start and finish dates to "Specials" and "Featured Products". I use the calendar, click my date, hit save, get back to the listing and the date shows garbage like the year 2036 (may not be alive then .... I am 53 now ).

any ideas what may have gone wrong?

thanks / Frank

www.frnt.org/zencart/

[frank18]

Thanks to "scrat" - I have done exactly what was suggested and it works fine - no more year 2036 - I might still be alive then which is my aim anyway.

With the Best of Health

Frank

Frank Riegel Natural Therapies

[vivaknievel]

What was the solution? I have a similar problem and can't seem to find a solution. If you could please post how you solved this, I'd very much appreciate it, as it may help me pinpoint what I might do in my situation.

Thank you!

- Jaye

[tranqui69]

Mee too, please post the solution!

[schoolboy]

The major area you need to change is in english.php (and remember, if you are editing the core file, save it to your overrides folder(s).

In english.php find:-

  @setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US.ISO_8859-1');
  define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%m/%d/%Y');  // this is used for strftime()
  define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
  define('DATE_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y'); // this is used for date()
  define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');

////
// Return date in raw format
// $date should be in format mm/dd/yyyy
// raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY
  if (!function_exists('zen_date_raw')) {
    function zen_date_raw($date, $reverse = false) {
      if ($reverse) {
        return substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4);
      } else {
        return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2); 

Now, look CAREFULLY at this EDIT, to see what's changed:-

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_UK.ISO_8859-1');
define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%d/%m/%Y');  // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT', 'd/m/Y'); // this is used for date()
define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');

////
// Return date in raw format
// $date should be in format dd/mm/yyyy
// raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY
  if (!function_exists('zen_date_raw')) {
function zen_date_raw($date, $reverse = false) {
if ($reverse) {
          return substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4);
} else {
  return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2); 

The above edit will return the date in UK format, as DD/MM/YYYY.

But that's not all...

Further down in english.php, you will need to find DEFINE statements that refer to DATE, and where you see a DEFINE that is listed as MM/DD/YYYY, you must make the necessary edit to have it show as DD/MM/YYYY .

Remember, you may have various additional modules installed, and in their CONFIGURATION settings (generally controlled via your admin panel somewhere), you may have to re-set the date parameters as well (from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY).

[schoolboy]

... Oh... and remember now, after you've made the edits, when you INPUT any dates into your system, you must now put them in as DD/MM/YYYY !!! You may ALSO have to call up any previous date-specific data record, as it's quite likely to be misconfigured after your english.php edit.

[silentavatar]

The major area you need to change is in english.php (and remember, if you are editing the core file, save it to your overrides folder(s).

In english.php find:-

  @setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US.ISO_8859-1');
  define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%m/%d/%Y');  // this is used for strftime()
  define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
  define('DATE_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y'); // this is used for date()
  define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');

////
// Return date in raw format
// $date should be in format mm/dd/yyyy
// raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY
  if (!function_exists('zen_date_raw')) {
    function zen_date_raw($date, $reverse = false) {
      if ($reverse) {
        return substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4);
      } else {
        return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2); 

Now, look CAREFULLY at this EDIT, to see what's changed:-

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_UK.ISO_8859-1');
define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%d/%m/%Y');  // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT', 'd/m/Y'); // this is used for date()
define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');

////
// Return date in raw format
// $date should be in format dd/mm/yyyy
// raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY
  if (!function_exists('zen_date_raw')) {
function zen_date_raw($date, $reverse = false) {
if ($reverse) {
          return substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4);
} else {
  return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2); 

The above edit will return the date in UK format, as DD/MM/YYYY.

But that's not all...

Further down in english.php, you will need to find DEFINE statements that refer to DATE, and where you see a DEFINE that is listed as MM/DD/YYYY, you must make the necessary edit to have it show as DD/MM/YYYY .

Remember, you may have various additional modules installed, and in their CONFIGURATION settings (generally controlled via your admin panel somewhere), you may have to re-set the date parameters as well (from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY).

Hey schoolbuy,

New Zenner here...

I'm sounding like a real clutz here.. where is the override folder located that I need to save to? Or do I have to make one and put it somewhere?

Cheers,
MG