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btrott

Jan 16 2002, 10:36 AM

I assume that you are using the MT date tag in an MT template, yes?

Could you please post the tag that you are using here? (Using the "Code" button)

btrott

Jan 16 2002, 01:59 PM

The '$' goes at the end of the tag, not at the end of the name of the tag. In other words it should look like this:

CODE

<$MTCommentDate format="%b %e, %Y %I:%M %p"$>

FalseIdol

Apr 4 2002, 06:54 AM

I'm having the problem that the date doesn't show up from my MTCommentDate tag in the MT-comments template and it is not reading the format I have specified. This code:

CODE

<MTComments>
<div class="comments-body">
<$MTCommentBody$>
<span class="comments-post">Posted by <$MTCommentAuthorLink$> at <$MTCommentDate format="%I %p %b %e, %Y"$></span>
</div>
</MTComments>

produces a date that looks like:

QUOTE

Posted by Nikki at 12 PM Apr , 2002

Any ideas?

FalseIdol
www.3BitchyChicks.com

FalseIdol

Apr 4 2002, 10:31 AM

I don't think it is the server not accepting the format attribute, because elsewhere...

CODE

<$MTEntryDate format="%m%d%y"$>

produces

QUOTE

040402

(April 4th, 2002) as it is supposed to.

When I left the tag without the format attribute (just <$MTCommentDate$>) it also produced the same problemmatic results detailed above.

quadsk8

Apr 12 2002, 03:15 AM

Not a bug just a typo:

I use Dutch language and %A for Wednesday gives me Woensag this should be Woensdag (like it should not read Wednesay in english :)

Will try to hack it myself :0

but maybe for next release?

quadsk8

Apr 16 2002, 08:56 AM

Thank you for the reply!!

I have another suggestion if I may...

In your standard templates (which I still use, so put in the paid links!) you use a XHTML 1.0 transitional doctype.

According to an article on A List Apart on DOCTYPES the used relative link

CODE

"DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"

should be a complete URI:

CODE

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"

.

Sorry to be a wise... :0

but maybe also for next release templates?

akalsey

Jan 16 2002, 10:30 AM

In the various comment date tags, the date formatting attribues don't seem to work. The MT tag is sent to the browser instead of the correct date.

akalsey

Jan 16 2002, 01:35 PM

This is in the comment templates:

CODE

<MTComments>

<$MTCommentBody$>

<div class="blogbyline">Posted by <$MTCommentAuthorLink$> | <$MTCommentDate$ format="%b %e, %Y %I:%M %p"></div>

</MTComments>

Win2k, IIS 5, MT 1.4

akalsey

Jan 16 2002, 02:16 PM

Duh. Of course.

bmk

Apr 4 2002, 07:23 AM

I think that I remember reading here that not all of the format specifiers work on every server (because the server is not set up for it), and since it looks like you have everything written correctly

, I'm guessing that's what is going on here. Does %d work instead of %e?

Brenna

btrott

Apr 4 2002, 10:50 AM

FalseIdol: Brenna is saying not that the format attribute is not being picked up, but that the %e specifier that you are using isn't working--which is likely, because that specifier does not work on every server. So you should use %d instead of %e.

BTW, I assume you are using 1.4 or lower? Because %e will always work in 2.0.

FalseIdol

Apr 4 2002, 11:43 AM

Yep, %d was it. And, yes, you caught me. I've been so happy with the way v1.4 has been working, I've been hesitant to go through the process of upgrading. Guess I'll do it anyway.

Thanks to both of you for helping out so quickly!

btrott

Apr 12 2002, 09:06 AM

Thanks! Will be fixed for the next release.

btrott

Apr 16 2002, 01:01 PM

Yep, we will fix this too. Thanks!

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