how can i manipulate the date which is shown in ditto ?

hi!
I have a question again. Im using ditto as a news snippet, to show recent news in the sidebar. Everything is working nicely but i want to manipulate the date which is shown in the postings. If i crearte a new news document today the date of today is shown. is there a possibility to manipulate that date?
Thanx for any help!
cheers
sven

There are several ways to go about this:
1) use the date formatting native to Ditto and use the +date+ placeholder in your ditto tpl (note need to use the dateSource parameter as well to define where to get the date);
2) use PHx within your ditto Tpl to format the date field (phx is installed for use within Ditto as part of ditto);
3) use a snippet, like the dateTime snippet to format the date.

In MODx the dates are stored as a unix timestamp and you can format the date as you normally would in php using the stftime() or the date() functions.

ok - i managed to do it myself. Just opened phpmyadmin and edited the modx_site_content
pub_date
createdon
editedon
publishedon
- the tricky thing is that you have to translate your date to unixtime. This can be done by using this site
http://www.captain.at/review-unixtime-javascript.php
cheers

thanx dev for the reply!

If i crearte a new news document today the date of today is shown. is there a possibility to manipulate that date?

OK, I understand. You are not refering to the formating but the actual date. By default the createdon date is what is being used otherwise there is the publishedon and the editedon date option.

You can change the date of the publishedon date by setting the publish date for that document within the manager. Another option is to use a date TV (template variable) and use the date widget to set the date. I use the publish date since it is one of the standard fields available for each document.

createdon and editedon do not have a widget to set the date, these are set on action create or edit.