f:format.date¶

Type

f:format.date¶
This f:format.date viewhelper can produce date-time strings in a variety of formats.

Properties¶

date¶

Type
date must be a DateTime object, or a string that can be converted to a DateTime object, or
an integer Unix timestamp.

Description

'17.01.1979' for example is accepted whereas '17.01.79' will not work.
date can be a textual relative time description such as 'now' or '-1 year' or 'next Thursday'.
If date is null the ViewHelper returns an empty string.
As of TYPO3 CMS 7 date defaults to now if it is an empty string.
If date is an integer it is considered to be a Unix timestamp that gets converted to a DateTime object
with the PHP default timezone applied. The timezone is determined by the PHP
function date_default_timezone_get(). Recommended reading:
PHP: Getting the default timezone.

Default value
NULL
Mandatory
No

format¶

Type
String
Description
format is a string that describes the desired form of the produced date-time string.
If there is at least one % character in the format string, the rules of PHP’s strftime() will be used.
Otherwise the rules of PHP’s date() function
will be applied.
Default value
The basic default is 'Y-m-d'
This can be overridden by setting $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['ddmmyy'] = 'd-m-Y'; , for example.

Mandatory
No

base¶

Type
base must be a DateTime object, or a string that can be converted to a DateTime object, or
an integer Unix timestamp.
Description
As of TYPO3 CMS 7 this ViewHelper uses base as the $now parameter in
PHP’s strtotime() function.
In that case base constitutes the start time for calculations of textual relative time descriptions.
Default value
The now() equivalent.
Mandatory
No

Examples¶

Day Month Year¶
Convert dd.mm.yyyy`to `d/m/y:
<f:format.date date="17.01.1979" format="d/m/y" />

Now¶
<f:format.date date="now" format="d/m/y" />

Format Unix timestamps¶
<f:format.date format="d.m.Y">@1334439765</f:format.date>
<f:format.date format="d.m.Y">1334439765</f:format.date>

Format and base defaults¶
<f:format.date>{dateObject}</f:format.date>
<f:format.date>now</f:format.date>

Hours:minutes¶
<f:format.date format="H:i">{dateObject}</f:format.date>

A year before base time¶
<f:format.date format="Y" base="{dateObject}">-1 year</f:format.date>
<f:format.date format="Y-m-d" base="2016-06-06">-1 year</f:format.date>
<f:format.date format="Y-m-d" base="yesterday">-1 year</f:format.date>
<f:format.date format="Y-m-d H:i:s" base="1334439765">-1 year</f:format.date>
<f:format.date format="Y-m-d H:i:s" base="@1334439765">-1 year</f:format.date>

A more complex textual relative time¶
<f:format.date format="d.m.Y - H:i:s">+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds</f:format.date>

Localized time using strftime syntax¶
<f:format.date format="%d. %B %Y">{dateObject}</f:format.date>
<f:format.date format="%d. %B %Y">now</f:format.date>

Inline notation¶
{f:format.date(date: dateObject)}
{f:format.date(date: dateObject, format: "%d. %B %Y")}
{f:format.date(date: "now", format: "%c")}

More inline notation¶
{dateObject -> f:format.date()}
{dateObject -> f:format.date(format: 'Y-m-d H:i:s')}