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Mads Ovesen	Monday 16 January 2006 2:18:40 pm Between ez v. 3.4.4 and 3.4.7 there has been a change in the way ezpublish interprets the ezdatetime datatype when used as an object name pattern. In v. 3.4.4 is it shown as a timestamp and in v. 3.4.7 it is shown in the datetime format. Right now I have updated a site from 3.4.4 to 3.4.7, so some objects of a class (those prior to the upgrade), which uses ezdatetime as object name pattern, show a timestamp while others (those after the upgrade) show it in datetimeformat. This is confusing, because I want to sort the objects by 'name', that is by the timestamp. The new objects, when sorted by name, is sorted like fx: friday_13_05_... monday_07_03_... saturday_05_09_... thursday_03_01_... i.e. not in any cronological order. How/Where can I change it back, so when the ezdatetime is used as a object name pattern, it uses the timestamp and not a datetime format of it?? - Thanks Mads /m
Mads Ovesen	Thursday 19 January 2006 11:57:25 pm Anyone?? Ez crew, why has this been changed?? /m
Łukasz Serwatka	Friday 20 January 2006 1:25:41 am Hi Mads, Take a look at eZDateTimeType::title() method in the kernel/classes/datatypes/ezdatetime/ezdatetimetype.php file. I can suppose that reason behind of this change was that timestamp is not human readable as object name. Object name like 'Saturday 14 January 2006 10:32:00 pm' says more about the date. However you can always do sorting on datetime attribute using sort_by or play with output format using datetime operator. Personal website -> http://serwatka.net Blog (about eZ Publish) -> http://serwatka.net/blog
Tobias Adam	Thursday 01 June 2006 6:45:53 am Hi Mads, I had the same problem and tried format the resulting object's name when using a ezdatetime datatype as object name pattern. I wanted something like YYYY-MM-DD, so that I could use the standard "sort by name"-function in the admin view to sort the items chronologically in the backend. Because of Lukasz' tip I found out that eZ (I'm currently using version 3.6.1) uses the DateTimeFormat entry in the currently used locale ini-file (located in /share/locale) to create an object name based on an ezdatetime datatype. In my case, I edited the file ger-DE.ini in /share/locale, where I changed the value DateTimeFormat=%l, %d.%F %Y %H:%i:%s in the DateTime settings group to DateTimeFormat=%Y-%m-%d %H:%i, which leads to a result like YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM. [DateTime] TimeFormat=%H:%i:%s ShortTimeFormat=%H:%i DateFormat=%l, %d.%F %Y ShortDateFormat=%d.%m.%Y #DateTimeFormat=%l, %d.%F %Y %H:%i:%s DateTimeFormat=%Y-%m-%d %H:%i ShortDateTimeFormat=%d.%m.%Y %H:%i MondayFirst=yes