Change date format for display

Hi,

Although there are quite a number or remarks and comments (and a nice video tutorial, nr I still am not able to change the way a date and time are displayed to my preference.

The field-name that I am trying to show is: "lastvisitDate". This is a system-field-name.

This field is selected in a list that I am showing to logged-in visitors. In the list this value is nicely shown and has the correct value.
Only thing I would like to change is the format of the date and time that are shown.

So, in the Field Management, I open this field "lastvisitDate", and add some code in order to format the "Userlist Value Layout".
Here is the code I use (which is not succesful):

[cb:userdata field="lastvisitDate" format="d M Y, H:i" /]

Can you show me the correct code, I would have to use to achieve this. As I said, the value is shown, but the formatting of the date-time is not picked up by this code.

Thanks for your time,
Burnardo

There's no substitution to reformat a field like that. To change the format of a date or datetime field you need to edit that field within CB > Field Management. Next under Parameters > Display set "Profile View Display" to "Custom". You can now supply a custom date (and time if the field supports time) format specifically for that field.

Great...,

Already executed as suggested. Now feeling embarrassed that I missed this...

Thanks Kyle,
Burnardo

Allas, still having a problem with the date format.

Now it seems that the custom format is nicely followed (in the sense of using day and month format) but the used language is not dutch (set as default language for the website) but english.

Even after inserting all the day and month names in the language-override files, it still does not respect the language request.

How can I solve this?

Thanks for your time,
Burnardo

Found a working solution...

(for the translation part...) It appears that the "short month" notation translates well, so I will be using that, instead of the longer month name.

Apparently there is still some file where the wrong (long month) date names are coming from. And, although I am using the language override plugin with correctly inserted long month names, there still is some sneaky whereby the wrong (english) names are being pulled in.

But I will leave it at this for the time being.
Regards,
Burnardo

You should be able to translate the full length names using the below language strings.


This assumes nothing is overriding them after you've translated them.