How do I change the Date format?

JillC:

This was great info, thanks. However, I have been wading through tutorials and little warnings pop up now and again about making sure your files don't get over-ridden during an update. For this reason (AT STEP 6) I copied the file admin/includes/languages/<YOUR_LANGUAGE>.php into
admin/includes/languages/<YOUR_TEMPLATE>/<YOUR_LANGUAGE>.php and made my changes there.

It seems to work and I don't know if I'm just being over cautious or not.
:smile:

Template override system is not currently available for the Admin section so you need to make changes to the /admin/includes/languages/<YOUR-LANGUAGE>.php file. If you copy this file into /admin/includes/languages/<YOUR-TEMPLATE>/<YOUR-LANGUAGE>.php it will have no effect on your store.

I also wanted to say thankyou to the wonderful people in here to take their time to help others.

I have managed to change most of my dates over too (Im in Australia & therefore wanted the 'UK' format).

They are all working wonderful. The only ones I have found that have not changed are the dates that Coupons expire. My customers get a message that this coupon expirse on ... and the date is US format.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Phil your a bloody legend :smartalec:

thanks Mate :hug:

rainbows:

I also wanted to say thankyou to the wonderful people in here to take their time to help others.

I have managed to change most of my dates over too (Im in Australia & therefore wanted the 'UK' format).

They are all working wonderful. The only ones I have found that have not changed are the dates that Coupons expire. My customers get a message that this coupon expirse on ... and the date is US format.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

That's because there are hundreds of other files still with Y-m-d format. I would leave it alone as it might have some thing to do with Mysql dates or external things like currency etc might get affected.

The only sure way of doing is to replace them in the files you see its not correct.

I am really sorry but it isn't working for me. I have redone it a few times and I don't have a CUSTOM file inmy admin section so I don't know why it is.

And I am working on my site offline so I can't link to it.

NVM, I redid it all again and it worked. Than you so much.

Excellent info Phil, Thanks, much appreciated. :cool::clap:

PS. Message To all zenners... I bought the Zen Book and it has saved me HOURS of frustration. Brilliant publication. Every novice should own it!!!!

This is incomplete. The full solution is here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57548&page=2&highlight=Date+format

Fantastic thread works like a treat.

It would be great in the next release that this could be made in the admin section for the site.

Cheers

Brett

Thank you so much for this tutorial :flex:

:clap: Thanks everyone. Special thanks to Phil. I hope it's an easier process in the next update.

it took me a bit to work out i was missing the following defines:

admin english.php

define('DOB_FORMAT_STRING', 'dd/mm/yyyy');

define('JS_DOB', '* The \'Date of Birth\' entry must be in the format: xx/xx/xxxx (date/month/year).\n');

define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_ERROR', ' <span class="errorText">(eg. 21/05/1970)</span>');

and your template english.php

  define('DOB_FORMAT_STRING', 'dd/mm/yy');

  define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_ERROR', 'Is your birth date correct? Our system requires the date in this format: DD/MM/YYYY (eg 21/05/1970)');

  define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_TEXT', '* (eg. 21/05/1970)');

its suprising how handy the "developers tool kit" can be amd finding 'the' file with 'that' text.:clap:

Hi,
I'm using Easy Populate to upload products and the date product added is not going through properly - it is using reading my UK date data as US format, so is not adding products to the newly added section.

Any ideas on how to fix this? I have changed all the references to the format in english.php for both my template and admin sections?

thanks

wonderfully and very clearly written, thank you :) made it very easy to change to Australia (dd/mm/yyyy) format..

Hi, it has worked for me to the only thing is I seem to of messed my register page up as you can see from the pic below the words have gone for the date of birth and, im not sure but i think ive messed my tables up as they are no longer alined.

Hope you guys can help me with this.
Thanx

I want to set the UK date on my site but when following this on my test Site it worked for the signup form and such. But when running a sales report i get an error one of the dates you entered is not valid.

i did try changing the date format in the stats_sales_report.php file but that didn’t make any difference.
I’m thinking its the SQL database that my be the root of this but don’t know :unsure:.
Anyone else seen this and fixed it?

Gawd... why did I bother? LOL
can't get into admin now, have checked and re-checked...

I get this message: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/getbuck/public_html/admin/includes/languages/english.php on line 186

which should refer to one of these first lines here (assuming phil's line numbers are correct!)

define('PLEASE_SELECT', 'Please select ...');
  define('TYPE_BELOW', 'Type a choice below ...');

  define('ENTRY_COMPANY', 'Company Name:');
  define('ENTRY_COMPANY_ERROR', 'Please enter a company name.');
  define('ENTRY_COMPANY_TEXT', '');
  define('ENTRY_GENDER', 'Salutation:');
  define('ENTRY_GENDER_ERROR', 'Please choose a salutation.');
  define('ENTRY_GENDER_TEXT', '*');
  define('ENTRY_FIRST_NAME', 'First Name:');
  define('ENTRY_FIRST_NAME_ERROR', 'Is your first name correct? Our system requires a minimum of ' . ENTRY_FIRST_NAME_MIN_LENGTH . ' characters. Please try again.');
  define('ENTRY_FIRST_NAME_TEXT', '*');
  define('ENTRY_LAST_NAME', 'Last Name:');
  define('ENTRY_LAST_NAME_ERROR', 'Is your last name correct? Our system requires a minimum of ' . ENTRY_LAST_NAME_MIN_LENGTH . ' characters. Please try again.');
  define('ENTRY_LAST_NAME_TEXT', '*');
  define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH', 'Date of Birth:');
  define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_ERROR', 'Is your birth date correct? Our system requires the date in this format: DD/MM/YYYY (eg 21/05/1970)');
  define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_TEXT', '* (eg. 21/05/1970)');

All I'm seeing is a missing * (possibly) where it defines company name???
I have the "requires company name" for login details set to off...

anyone?? Its rather late here in aus and i have almost reached the limit of my patience with this particulare problem - I'm no net wiz, so any help greatly appreciated!!

Right... feeling pretty stupid right about now, but have figured it out nonetheless...

Thanks Phill, you are as good as they say ;):clap:

I've got the same problem
I edited admin\includes\languages\english.php
and
includes\languages\english.php

Still getting the warning "Is your birth date correct? Our system requires the date in this format: MM/DD/YYYY (eg 05/21/1970)" after completing new account registration

"I bought the Zen Book and it has saved me HOURS of frustration. Brilliant publication. Every novice should own it!!!! "

I second this.