Date format question

[Dr_Evil]

Hi,
Does anyone know how I can change the date format of "Upcoming Products" "date Expected" date? It is currently displaying in MM/DD/YYYY but my client would like to display it like this DD/MM/YYYY (or something similar). My first thought was changing the date format in the DB, but I quickly changed my mind on this as I imagine that all the internal date processing will be upset if I do something like this. Is that correct?


Any comments/recommendations would really be appreciated on this, as it is the last thing before the site is totally completed.

Thanks in advance

Dr Evil

[Arpit]

In catalog/includes/languages/english.php find the following code:

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'); 

//// 
// Return date in raw format 
// $date should be in format mm/dd/yyyy 
// raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY 
function tep_date_raw($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); 
  } 
}

and replace it by :

define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%d/%m/%Y');  // this is used for strftime() 
define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime() 
define('DATE_FORMAT', 'd/m/Y'); // this is used for date() 
define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S'); 

//// 
// Return date in raw format 
// $date should be in format dd/mm/yyyy 
// raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY 
function tep_date_raw($date, $reverse = false) { 
  if ($reverse) { 
    return substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4); 
  } else { 
    return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2); 
  } 
}

And do the same for the admin side, ie. admin/includes/languages/english.php

Hope that helps

[Arpit]

and remember always create backups ...n sorry for the duplicate posting

[mrpda]

Dudes, I use this code o change date format and have success on it.
Thanks,
But in the footer the data still apear in English and I wish to change it to Portuguese, how I can do that?

Best Regards,

Marcelo