Allow different formats for start and end date [#1653204]

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to have some option regarding how the start date and end date is displayed. I've been using module for our events. And I notice that the start date and end date are displayed separately, which might be not as concise as the format like January 1-2, 2012. There are surely many cases when it is better to display the dates separately, so what I'm suggesting is just to make it as an option.

Thank you!

Comments

Comment #1

chucksimply CreditAttribution: chucksimply commented 19 September 2012 at 04:22

Are you referring to the formatting of the start and end date? Because I think this would solve the problem. If the start and end date could each be formatted differently, you could create a wider variety of simpler date start-end combinations. For instance in the above case... Start Date = January 1, End Date = 2, 2012. The combination would be January 1-2, 2012. This is doable in Views, but not in the standard date field. Would love to see it.

Comment #2

DrupalDan CreditAttribution: DrupalDan commented 22 September 2012 at 15:18

Hi ChuckSimply, thanks for your response. Yes, I'm looking for an easy way to make start date and end date shown as "January 1-2, 2012" but don't know how to do it. Can you give me some more information?

Thanks

Comment #3

Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented 13 February 2013 at 05:36

I have a similar problem, but my end date is not mandatory. If you always have an end date, you can

1. Add a Start Date to the view, format according and exclude from View
2. Add a End Date to the view, format according and exclude from View
3. Add a field which combines the two in a Rewrite rule.

Comment #4

dotmundo CreditAttribution: dotmundo commented 9 July 2013 at 11:39

What if the date goes from Jan 30 to Feb 1? It might be best to do this in the field template using PHP.

Comment #5

JKingsnorth CreditAttribution: JKingsnorth commented 4 September 2014 at 12:25

Title:	Format of start and end date	» Allow different formats for start and end date
Issue summary:	View changes

Marked #1915872: Allow the format of Start and End Dates to be changed. as a duplicate.

Comment #6

jphelan CreditAttribution: jphelan commented 24 November 2014 at 23:06

This is probably not the best way to do it but in views create a template file for your date field and output your date field as "Plain" and "Both Start and End Dates". Then in your template file put the code below. This accounts for dates the span months or years. Format the date output to your liking date().

if(!empty($output)) {
  $dates = explode(" to ", $output);
  $start_time = strtotime($dates[0]);
  if(!empty($dates[1])) {
    $end_time = strtotime($dates[1]);
  } else {
    $end_time = $start_time;
  }
  if($start_time == $end_time) {
    print date('F j, Y', $start_time);
  } elseif ((date('Y', $start_time) != date('Y', $end_time))) {
    print date('F j, Y ', $start_time) . ' - ' . date('F j, Y', $end_time);
  } elseif ((date('F', $start_time) != date('F', $end_time))) {
    print date('F j - ', $start_time) . date('F j, Y', $end_time);
  } else {
    print date('F j - ', $start_time) . date('j, Y', $end_time);
  }
}