Cannot change time format on calendar tooltip (table.php)

[Sandro]

Hi,

I cannot figure out why time stamp doesn’t change. On tooltip I’d like to use shot version of month, so I substitute F with M in the date_format. But nothing happens!
echo ” – ” . date_i18n( get_option(‘date_format’, ‘F j, Y’), $end);
echo ” – ” . date_i18n( get_option(‘date_format’, ‘M j, Y’), $end);
FOr these two output is identical! how can this be?

[Barry]

Either because of the way date_i18n() works:

If the locale specifies the locale month and weekday, then the locale will take over the format for the date. If it isn’t, then the date format string will be used instead.

Or because of the way get_option() works:

The default value to return if no value is returned (ie. the option is not in the database)

So there are at least two levels where the format you are specifying will not get through. Instead, perhaps you could use PHP’s date() function directly?

[Sandro]

Hi Barry, I did as advised. But now dates don’t get translated! Any other way to fix this?

[Barry]

Sure, take a look at setting the locale for the PHP runtime.

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