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#188220

enGB.ini files look like this
DATE_FORMAT_LC=”l, F j, Y”
DATE_FORMAT_LC1=”l, F j, Y”
DATE_FORMAT_LC2=”l, F j Y H:i”
DATE_FORMAT_LC3=”F j, Y”
DATE_FORMAT_LC4=”F-j-Y”
DATE_FORMAT_JS1=”F-j-y”

but nothing is changing on article

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#495807

1) Navigate to the en-GB.ini file, which is in this location: your root directory/languages/en-GB/en-GB.ini

2) Open the en-GB.ini file with your plain text editor and look for this line of code towards the top of the file:
DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%A, %d %B %Y %H:%M

3) That’s Linux date format code, and you’ll need to change it to this: DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%B %d, %Y

4) Once you make that change, save the en-GB.ini file

5) Go back to the front of your site and refresh the page.

Now, here’s an important note to keep in mind: when you make this change, you’re editing a core Joomla file. When you upgrade Joomla, there’s a chance that there will be a new language directory, a new en-GB directory, or a new en-GB.ini file.

If that’s the case, when you upgrade, your date change will be lost, since the en-GB.ini file that you edited will be overwritten by the new one in the Joomla upgrade package.

If you’re fine with potentially needing to make this simple change each time you upgrade, then you’re fine. If you want to avoid that, there’s another way to make this change: install the American Language pack by Dave Morgan.

Here’s How:
1) Go to this page and download the language pack by clicking on the download link: English Language Pack

2) Install it in Joomla by going to Extensions>Install Uninstall.

Click on Browse, find the language pack file you downloaded, and double click on it when you find it.
Then click on Upload and Install on the Extension Manager page.

3) After it’s been successfully installed, go to Extensions>Language Manager.

4) Check the radio button next to English(United States) and then click on the Defualt icon in the upper right of the page to make this language pack your default language pack.

If you want to edit how that date format is appearing, such as taking the time stamp off, go to language/en-US and open the en-US.ini file. Change the date format for LC2 in a similar way that I described above for editing the en-GB.ini file.

For example, if you wanted to remove the time stamp, you would delete the %H:%M on the line of code for the DATE_FORMAT_LC2 within the en-US.ini file. Currently, that line of code is on line 11 of that file.

When you update Joomla, your date format changes will remain in tact as long as the core Joomla team doesn’t create a new language directory named en-US as a new option.

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#498744

Tom,

I’ve tried both ways you recommended and nothing is changing. Is there another language file that this particular date is referencing? All dates changed, except this area.

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#498825

Hi

Could you specify which part this date belongs to? in article or in a module? a URL and screenshot would be helpful here.

Regards

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#499215

Yes in Article. Menu link is set as Category Blog. I pm you the site.

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#499226

Hi

If it’s published date in article view, you can check this file: templatesja_nexhtmlcom_contentarticledefault.php

at approx line 122, you will see this code:

[PHP]
<?php if ($params->get(‘show_publish_date’)) : ?>
<dd class=”published”>
<?php echo JText::sprintf(‘COM_CONTENT_LAST_UPDATED’, JHtml::_(‘date’,$this->item->modified, JText::_(‘DATE_FORMAT_LC3’))); ?>
</dd>
<?php endif; ?>
[/PHP]

By default, it uses this format: DATE_FORMAT_LC3, you can change to another format defined in the language file like Tom suggested above (and english is default language in your site now 🙂 )

Finally make sure that you clean JAT3 cache after making changes.

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#499367

Here is the current settings I have in language file:
DATE_FORMAT_LC=”l, F j, Y”
DATE_FORMAT_LC1=”l, F j, Y”
DATE_FORMAT_LC2=”l, F j, Y H:i”
DATE_FORMAT_LC3=”F j, Y”
DATE_FORMAT_LC4=”F-j-Y”
DATE_FORMAT_JS1=”F-j-Y”

Which is why I am confused about why it is not formatting according to those settings. It wouldn’t matter if I changed the templatesja_nexhtmlcom_contentarticledefault .php because it should be reflecting the above format, correct?

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#499507

I’m not sure if it makes a difference but this seems to only affect the Category Blog> intro articles??? When I set it to Category Blog and show leading articles the date is formatted correctly.

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#499519

How did you change? you changed from DATE_FORMAT_LC3 to DATE_FORMAT_LC2, for example,

or you change the format in DATE_FORMAT_LC3 ?

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#499649

I have done both:
Changed language files in en-us.ini, en-gb.ini to
DATE_FORMAT_LC=”l, F j, Y”
DATE_FORMAT_LC1=”l, F j, Y”
DATE_FORMAT_LC2=”l, F j, Y H:i”
DATE_FORMAT_LC3=”F j, Y”
DATE_FORMAT_LC4=”F-j-Y”
DATE_FORMAT_JS1=”F-j-Y”

and tried changing the Date_Format_LC2 to LC3 and vice versa. Nothing is affecting this date format. I don’t know why it’s not changing. 🙁

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#499753

Could you pm me admin as well as ftp account of your site? It’s better with a closer look 🙂

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#499950

Thanks, I pm you.

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#501809

Still needing help on this please!

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#501868

Hi

Could you make screenshot / URL of page where you want to change the date?

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