Using unpubdate for eventcalender but how to make it readable date?

Can I use the &dateFormat parameter to format [+unpub_date+] ?

I use this object to sort the list, this way I can use Ditto as an event calender works great but I would like to see the actual date instead of the unix timestamp.

how does &dateFormat work? In the documentation I do not see how it works or how to format the date (removing time etc)

Dimmy

DittoRulz!!

Hi dimmy,

have a look to strftime function => http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php
&dateFormat=`%d %B %Y`

And to render the transformed date you have to use [+date+] placeholder in your chunk

:-)

mm is the [+date+] place holder not the creationdate? or can it be any date? if so how would you do that in ditto?
I am a bit confused.

The call could look like this:

[[ditto? &sortBy=`unpub_date` &dateFormat=`%d %B %Y` ]]

As we apply a specific date format ditto will return the result in a [+date+] placeholder.

:-)

ok so ditto knows that unpub_date is a date nice.

works like a charm