TOPIC: Changing date format, kills hotspots

Changing from Y-m-d to d-m-Y makes the locations dissapear

Hey Johny,
Are you on joomla 1.7 or 2.5??? Please hover over the date label and read the description on 1.7 and 2.5 you have different syntax.

And if in the field it says d-m-Y - we internally change it to %d%m%y for joomla 1.7 - but if you change it to something else, then we assume that you have added correct strings in the field...

Anyway - check the description and you'll get it.

cheers,
Daniel

2.5

I just replace %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S with %d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S

I know how date works already, thanks

Hey Johnny,
Sorry, but it wasn't clear from your last reply - did you solve your problem or not?
Regards,
Daniel

Nope, the moment I change to %d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S all previous hotspots don't appear, nor the ones created after the change.

I've tried editing old ones, and creating news, but they don't appear, if I revert back to default date format, there they are...

Ok, I found the problem. First of all for joomla 2.5 you need to follow the date syntax: php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

it will be something like d-m-Y and not %d-%m-%Y...

And now we come to the bug.. In components/com_hotspots/views/json/tmpl/default_description.php on line 30 we have:
and it should be jsut
It is a bug, because in the view.raw.php file we already have parsed the date with hotspotsUtils::getLocalDate($this->hotspot->postdate) and if we try to parse it again in the default_description, then the jdate function can't handle it...

Make the change it should work.
Cheers,
Daniel

Sorry, did forgot to update thread

I can confirm the bug is fixed in upcoming beta version

Although I would suggest to change it to not think stable is an update :/ it just keep bugging me to update