Changing the date format from US to UK i.e mmddyyyy to ddmmyyyy

I was look up the tutorial on here: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=401

I think the tutorial doesn't work with 1.3.9h. The coding has changed slightly.

Does anyone know if there is an upto date instruction for changing date format?

Thanks.

In what way has it changed?

The english.php in 1.3.9h has a couple of additional lines of code in comparison to the tutorial guide. And so:

1. you can not simply "find" and "replace"

2. I could just replace the sections where there codes are the same, but I'm concerned some other parts may not work correctly, or I may some how break the thing all together.

For example these has changed:

This is point 7 in the tutorial

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('PHP_DATE_TIME_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y H:i:s'); // this is used for date()

define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');

define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'MM/dd/yyyy'); //Use only 'dd', 'MM' and 'yyyy' here in any order

While this is in the english.php

 
@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');

This is in point 8 of tutorial

 
// Return date in raw format

// $date should be in format mm/dd/yyyy

// raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY

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);

  }

}

This is in english.php

 
// 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);
      }
    }
  }

FOR:
define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'MM/dd/yyyy'); //Use only 'dd', 'MM' and 'yyyy' here in any order

If this is not in your current english.php file, then don't worry about it. It's likely it has been moved to another file, in which case you can use admin >>> tools >>> developer toolkit to find the file. Then open that one for editing.

FOR:
if (!function_exists('zen_date_raw')) {

Simply leave it alone...

Hi Schoolboy

Thanks for the reply.

in Point 7 there are two differences:
define('PHP_DATE_TIME_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y H:i:s'); // this is used for date()
define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'MM/dd/yyyy'); //Use only 'dd', 'MM' and 'yyyy' here in any order

I should replace everything except these two lines? But I should trace it via developers tool kit and change it that way?

In point 8:
Since everything is the same except:
if (!function_exists('zen_date_raw')) {
I should copy over everything else but leave the above line alone?

Nudge bump. Hello

Please don't bump posts... We are not sitting on this forum 24 hours a day waiting for new questions. If I choose not to login to the forum for 6 months, that is MY choice.

If the instruction is that you can change MM/dd/yyyy to dd/MM/yyyy then just follow that instruction. This stuff is largely common sense. I am not a programmer, but even I can see the logic of all this...

I was not expecting that.

Sorry, if I touched a nerve but thanks for your input anyway.

Can someone upload an english php for both 'edits' as I cant get it to work in 1.3.9h!?

Much appreciated if you do.

Thanks.