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Not correct translation strtotime:date - always 01.01.1970

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    antik3 Reply #1, 9 years, 6 months ago
    Good Day.
    MODX Evo 1.0.12

    I want to display pub. date in human-readable format.
    What i do:

    [+pub_date:strtotime:date=`%e %B %Y`+]


    Result: 1 Jan 1970.
    For all posts.

    But [+pub_date+] display right date in unix time (if i convert it) and all post has right pub dates (in unix time).
    Can someone help me with it?

    Thanks and sorry for my English.
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      nuan88 Reply #2, 9 years, 6 months ago
      Wow! You found a solution to this trouble?

      I found this bug before, when using the discuss forum software. I wanted the user registration date, and it always came out the same value. I tried everything, and thought the value was not being set at all.

      But you can get the right date in unix time? Can you show me how to convert it some something readable?

      I have discussed this several times with users here, but we never found a solution.

      Also, I don't think this is an Evo only problem, because I am using Revo, but that doesn't matter.

      So, what are you trying to do now? Can you show what you got now?
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        antik3 Reply #3, 9 years, 6 months ago
        Thanks for unswer.
        Now i use

        [+pub_date:strtotime:date=`%e %B %Y`+]


        And got

        1 Jan 1970

        If this problem is so big, i think i make custom snippet to convert unix time to redable data and releas it where.
        I think i do it tomorow.
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          antik3 Reply #4, 9 years, 6 months ago
          Ok, now i make some shitcode and its work wink

          In my Chunk:
          [[dateFormatter &unixDate=[+pub_date+]]]


          And created new simple Snippet:
          <?php
if(!isset($unixDate))
		return false;

	echo date('d.m.y', $unixDate);
?>


          Now i hav date in normal format.
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            marlieshartog Reply #5, 9 years, 6 months ago
            Hey,
            Are you working on Windows or Linux maybe? I found this:

            http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/making-sites-with-modx/commonly-used-template-tags/date-formats

            Look at the last paragraph (the FYI) and mind the last remark:

            So the first 3 common examples given do not work on Windows!

            Hopefully this helps -- maybe try something like %d %m %Y.

            Let me know!
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              marlieshartog Reply #6, 9 years, 6 months ago
              Hey,
              Are you working on Windows or Linux maybe? I found this:

              http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/making-sites-with-modx/commonly-used-template-tags/date-formats

              Look at the last paragraph (the FYI) and mind the last remark:

              So the first 3 common examples given do not work on Windows!

              Hopefully this helps -- maybe try something like %d %m %Y.

              Let me know!
              • Mark Hamstra Reply #7, 9 years, 6 months ago 
                [+pub_date:strtotime:date=`%e %B %Y`+]

                If [+pub_date+] is already in unix time, you shouldn't be adding strtotime there as that takes a date string and turns it into a unix timestamp. Simply do this:

                [+pub_date:date=`%e %B %Y`+]
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                  nuan88 Reply #8, 9 years, 6 months ago
                  Wow that's so cool! I hope I can use it to add in the user's registration date into the user profile page!

                  Thanks antik3!