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[LocaLiceR Friend LocaLiceRJoin date: January 2006Posts: 47Downloads:4Uploads:3 Thanks: 8 Thanked: 13 times in 1 posts]

#195197

It made me sad that the internationalization and localization efforts of the Joomla! Project have been forgotten, regarding the time. In Joomla! the display order of the date and time is highly customizable, that makes possible to set any kind of date format (see lines 253 to 258 in file en-GB.ini).

Unfortunately in Purity III the Western date format variations can be selected only 🙁 This may be a drawback for the rest of the world.

It would be likely better to return back to the Joomla! core feature

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#524422

You can customize it easily by opening the file: /templates/purity_iii/templateDetails.xml, you will see this declaration:

<fieldset name="purity_iii_params" label="TPL_EXTENDED_TAB_LABEL" description="TPL_EXTENDED_TAB_LABEL">
<field name="tpl_article_info_datetime_format" type="list" default="d M Y"
global="1"
label="TPL_ARTICLE_INFO_DATETIME_FORMAT_LABEL"
description="TPL_ARTICLE_INFO_DATETIME_FORMAT_DESC">
<option value="d M Y">TPL_DATE_SHORT</option>
<option value="d F Y">TPL_DATE_FULL_MONTH</option>
<option value="l, d F Y">TPL_DATE_FULL</option>
</field>
</fieldset>

You can add additional format like 3 existing formats, then translate relevant texts like TPL_DATE_FULL in the language file of this template: language/en-GB/en-GB.tpl_purity_iii.ini

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#524439

Thank you for your excellent idea,

However, I don’t understand why to reinvent the wheel?

I will try to apply this on a multilingual site. Stay tuned 🙂

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#524739

If possible, please keep me updated once you give it a try. Glad to know how it goes 🙂

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#525432

Just took time to give try to your suggestion.

I successfully added the new options to templateDetails.xml, however, only one opzion can be selected on the JA Purity III tab in the Edit Style screen. This is not good for the sites with multilingual siite interface and monolingual content, because the date format will be the same for all the languages.

When you have multilingual content by adding content languages in Language Manager, you can select differemt date format for each language. This can be a workaround for such sites.

Adding the new dates related keys to the purity iii language ini file is not practical because you will lose whem applying the next update. I cannot add a language override to a non existing key.

Sorry to say the current date format handling is not a thought-out and winning solution in JA Purity III 🙁 It

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#525624

What is the second language you’re using on your website? I will give it a try at my end.

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#525664

My second language is Hungarian (hu-HU).

Anyway, I can imagine a check box to be able enable or disable the date handling on template level. What do you think of it?

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#525724

I will pass this to development team to consider that ON/OFF option. At this moment, if you don’t want to use date handling on template, you can remove fieldset above in the templateDetails.xml file.

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#525748

Thank you for forwarding my suggestion to the dev. team and also thanks for your tip to remove this fieldset.

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