Time formatting question

[Shawn]

I’m having a problem getting the time formatted the way I want. I’ve duplicated the “table.php” file into an “events” directory in my theme, and have modified the event time to use this code:
date_i18n( get_option( ‘time_format’, ‘g:ia’ ), $start)

The problem is that it’s not respecting the “g:ia” format; I’m getting it formatted like g:i a (e.g. 8:00 am instead of 8:00am).
I’ve tried switching themes to no effect.
Any ideas?

[Shawn]

Never mind – I figured out that I could use

tribe_get_start_date(null, false, ‘g:ia’);

instead.

Why are there two different methods used to output the event start and end times in the plugin? Just curious…

[Barry]

Hi Shawn. When you use get_option() you are specifying a piece of information you wish to receive and – just in case that piece of information doesn’t exist – you are also specifying a default or fall back value.

So get_option(‘time_format’, ‘g:ia’) will not return ‘g:ia’ unless 1) the WordPress time_format setting doesn’t exist in the database, which would be very unusual, or 2) time_format itself is set to ‘g:ia’ (this can be controlled via the WordPress settings admin pages).

You’re correct that different methods are used within the plugins – there is no official answer for that, it really depends on a mixture of things such as the context, the programming style of the developer who committed that piece of code and so on.

Of course we try for a high level of consistency but now and again these things might get away from us.

I hope that answers your questions and just let me know if you need any further support 🙂

[Shawn]

Ahh, got it. Thanks for the answer, Barry!

[Barry]

No problem!

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