Change date format

Question

I use a plugin that shows me list of posts and I want to change format of date. This is show me date like this:

24 january 2015 12:20:11 and this is the code of above output:

<?php echo $post->getCreatedTime(); ?>

But I want to show date like this:

24 january 2015

I use this code but this is show time in wrong month and date, for example instead of 24 january 2015 it shows me: Oct 12, 2015 !!!

<?php $_ct= new Zend_Date($post->getCreatedTime()); echo $_ct->toString('MMM dd, yyyy'); ?>

I don't have any idea why this is happen!!!

How can I fix it?

Answer 1

Don't forget about locale! As all other examples can cause issues for people from different time zones.

Mage::app()->getLocale()->date()

inside date() you can put any date and call method ->toString() with some param.

Pattern examples you can find in Varien_Date

const DATETIME_INTERNAL_FORMAT = 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss';
const DATE_INTERNAL_FORMAT = 'yyyy-MM-dd';

const DATETIME_PHP_FORMAT       = 'Y-m-d H:i:s';
const DATE_PHP_FORMAT           = 'Y-m-d';

or use any you like.

For example for current time full call will look like this:

Mage::app()->getLocale()->date()->toString(Varien_Date::DATE_INTERNAL_FORMAT);

Answer 2

Use strtotime() function. See updated code below.

$_ct= new Zend_Date(strtotime($post->getCreatedTime()));
echo $_ct->toString('MMM dd, yyyy');    // will output Jan 24, 2015

Answer 3

I have use today this format which is working fine.

$createdtime = new Zend_Date(strtotime($post->getCreatedTime()));
echo Mage::getModel('core/date')->date('M d, Y', $createdtime);

Answer 4

Use something like this:

$date = $post->getCreatedTime();
$dateToShow = date('j F Y',strtotime($date));
echo $dateToShow;

About the exact format just use: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Answer 5

Just you need to set your local time zone. so it's get your server time and print as you wish.

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Rome');

set your time zone. check if any problem tell me.

Happy Codding . :)

Answer 6

Please try below code

$anyDate = '24 january 2015 12:20:11';
echo $currentDate = Mage::getModel('core/date')->date('d F Y', $anyDate);