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[burtsTechie]

I wanted to change the time / date format, but didn't like the choices available on the x-cart admin. I'm a fan of a full month (e.g. January vs Jan) and no leading 0 in time (e.g. 8:12pm vs 08:12pm). I didn't want to find each instance of the date/time in the .tpl files, so I figured I'd make the change on the configuration side. I did some poking around the smarty website and found these changes that I could make to configuration.php (~line 167 in 4.13)

In configuration.php, after

PHP Code:

if ($option == "Appearance") {
    $date_formats = array( 


Add: "%B %e, %Y" to the list. This gives the date format January 15, 2007 as an option found in general settings/appearance in the admin side.

After:

PHP Code:

$time_formats = array( 


Add: "%l:%M %p" to the list. This gives the time format 8:15pm as an option.

Here's my complete code for that section:

PHP Code:

if ($option == "Appearance") {
    $date_formats = array(
        "%d-%m-%Y",
        "%d/%m/%Y",
        "%d.%m.%Y",
        "%m-%d-%Y",
        "%m/%d/%Y",
        "%Y-%m-%d",
        "%b %e, %Y",
        "%A, %B %e, %Y",
        "%B %e, %Y");
    $time_formats = array(
        "",
        "%H:%M:%S",
        "%H.%M.%S",
        "%I:%M:%S %p",
        "%l:%M %p"); 


I hope that helps someone else that wants a more streamlined appearance for dates/times on their order invoices and other places!