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This quick tip will show you how to change the default date formatting in Joomla 1.5 articles by editing your language file.
Follow these steps
- Locate your language file from the root dir, for example: language/en-GB/en-GB.ini
- Around line 11 you will find the LC2 code DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%A, %d %B %Y
- Change this to the format you require, for example, to just display the month and year use: DATE_FORMAT_LC2=%B %Y
- %A = locale’s full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)
- %d = day of month (01..31)
- %B = locale’s full month name, variable length (January..December)
- %Y = year (1970…)
Note: Joomla uses Linux/Unix Date Commands not the PHP date format. See here for a breakdown of the options: http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_date.htm
Note: Depending on what template you are using, your LC code may be different. To check this, look in the file located within you template dir: templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/article/default.php
