Date formats
This chapter shows how to create a custom date format.
Table of contents
Introduction
Before you start, you should check the general settings for date and time and make sure they are correct.
You
may also want to read the community documentation for
Date/Calendar. It
contains a presentation of the date field types, the date locale, the
date API, date form elements and guides to common date and calendar
applications.
Creating a custom date/time format
Sometimes, we need other date formats than those that already exists. The tutorial below shows how to create a custom format that works just like the predefined formats.
To begin the process, navigate to . Take a look at the three default date formats provided. You may want to change these to formats that are more familiar to your target audience than the defaults that are set.
However, in this tutorial we are going to create a fourth format that just displays the time. This is because we know that we are going to need a compact time-only format in our calendar view.
To do this, click on the tab and then on the link. The syntax for the is these formats are same as used by PHP.
For instance, to add a 24 hour hour:minute format, use “H:i” as the format string.
After defining the format string, click on .
Next, we need to assign the newly defined format to a format with a specific name. To do that return to list of date and time formats by clicking on the tab. To add the newly created format to the list, click on the link .
In the fields under Date type, enter a descriptive name. A machine name will be created automatically. Select the date format to associate with this name.
After naming the format, click .
The new format name will now appear in the list of formats.
When done defining a new data format, do not forget to save your configuration.
Final word
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Last update: 2016-09-20.