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I wanted to do the same thing, but there are lots of places where the date has been hardcoded to YYYY-MM-DD and also in the Javascript validations. So I thought to leave it like that, too many changes to consider :)

hey guys

all input date must be in YYYY-MM-DD , this is just to keep things simple

all output dates are based on localisation settings in the config.ini file
- refer http://simpleinvoices.org/config#localization

does this help?

cheers

justin

Hi Justin,

Our config.ini localisation setting is set to en-gb however the date still shows in the US format. Within the invoice template I've used $invoice.date variable, is this right?

Many thanks

Joel
www.nippygecko.com

Hi

If you are trying this in the tpl file then you may try something like - $invoices.date|siLocal_date
If you are doing this within php file then you may try something like - siLocal::date($invoice.date)

try in phpmyadmin in the database.

si_system_defaults

standard dateformate is Y-m-d

change dateformate to d-m-Y

:)

hey joel

can you post an example of the US date in question
- its just theres alot of different place and type of dates in Simple Invoices

and try what harvinder mentions - that should fix it up

cheers

justin

Hi

We were thinking of changing the date style as well, but there are a lot of places within simple invoices where this date style - YYYY-MM-DD is hardcoded i.e. javascript validations, when writing to database etc.

So we decided to just use this style over all instead, although it does look a little odd but if it becomes too much inconvenience we may have to do the changes on all the places. I wouldn't waste much time on changing the date structure on all the parts in Simple Invoices because no matter what there will be new requirements for the date format for different people. It is a little hard to put something in place in the config file for the date format because of the javascript validation on date fields and so on.

I guess if anything needs to be done we might just have a generic date format variable in the config file say DD-MM-YYYY and everywhere else this format gets used, but it is easier said then done.

Thanks
Harvinder Singh

I changed the ini file the country localization.
But the in the date section in SI, it shows the name of the month not the number of the month.

Such as 01.Jan.2010 but i want to see it like 01.01.2010
How to change it?

Hi don_camillo,

Smarty can set the date format for you, try to use it in your templates.
For example: {$invoice.date|date_format:"%e %B %Y"}
The only problem is that the localization is not set right for smarty!!

What I did is to add this line to your translate localization directory (lang/nl_NL/lang.php)
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL');

Smarty use not the localization what is set in the config.ini file. BUG?
The date will by now for my email template's '2 januari 2012'.
Strangely enough it will not work for my invoice templates...

http://www.smarty.net/docsv2/en/language.modifier.date.format