Idea Add Day to Event Dates

Hi All,

In some parts of WEBTREES the dates shows a day as well eg; in the News and Changes Modules day and date AND Time are shown 'Sunday, 8 December 2024 10:24 AM'.

Would it be possible and wanted to have the OPTION to show actual day of the event eg Birth date Wed, 6 Dec 1905 or Wednesday, 6 December 1905

I don't think the actual code to do this would be hard BUT me doing it would be..

Appreciate peoples thoughts before I add to Github wants list!!

 

Hace algún tiempo hice la misma solicitud y, por lo tanto, me sumo a tu idea. No creo que resulte difícil implementarlo y sí muy práctico.

You probably can do this with a simple custom translation (see the example module )

The format for dates and times is a translatable string. This allows each language to use their prefered format.

As an example, here are the translations for en-US.

This gives time in the 12 hour clock and for dates in the Month Day, Year format

Adding weekday is a simple matter of adding either %D (short weekday) or %l (long weekday).

The example module shows how to add custom translations.

Simple copy/paste the example module, delete all the bits you don't need and add translations as required.

RickM wrote:

Appreciate peoples thoughts before I add to Github wants list!!

I made the change and find it a very informative addition. So thanks for the request, and Bert and Greg thanks for the solution!

But I see that the weekdays start with a capital letter everywhere. Especially in reports (in a running sentence) this is disturbing, so I added in the translation module also the weekdays to start with a lowercase letter:

In English, day-names (and month names) are "proper nouns". So they are always capitalised.

Perhaps the translation for Dutch ought to be changed to lower-case?

In Dutch, weekdays are written with lowercase letters. They are capitalized only when they are the first word of a sentence.

As far as I can see, weekdays in webtrees can just be used with a lowercase letter, including the abbreviations.

I have adjusted the translation accordingly so that the translation module is no longer needed for this.

Thanks for the tip!

Thanks Everyone, now I will go away and figure out this Module..

Ok Module Done.. Really simple thanks for the suggestions..

As I have added the Day I think it might be good if I can add the Ordinal Indicator (date Suffix eg th, st, rd, nd). I have tried %S and just S directly after the %j but that just shows Sunday, 17 %S January 1886

I'm guessing there is another part I have to sort out.. any pointers please!
Really appreciate the support and backup from everyone..

WebTrees Rocks!!
 

Probably being a bit rude and bumping this up.. Sorry..
I have attached my rendition of changed the date structure to show Actual Day for Date. If I read the date formatting examples correctly I should be able to add Ordinals as previously indicated by including S after %j as in the file dayfordate.php

The addition of %l works %jS does NOT..

What am I missing????

%S, not just S

Greg,
Appreciate you coming back to me..
However I must have something NOT right.. <Smile>

%S not work for me..

What files should I look at to test this with when seen in the likes of the News module, Changes in last xx days module, as these show day date and time already

Cheers

Looks like I didn't code that one.

github.com/fisharebest/webtrees/blob/b65...arDate.php#L507-L565

Probably because it is very language-dependent, and cannot easily be translated. I would to know the rules for every language that we support.

Rick
Something else to consider. If you use full length day, and full length months, then in some cases (a great many in my trees), you can end up with dates like this:
"between Monday, 1 October, 1951 and Monday, 31 December, 1951"

Also, even single dates can be too long if, say, displayed on a phone.

Perhaps "between Mon, 1 Oct, 1951 and Mon, 31 Dec, 1951" would be more practical?

Thanks Nigel,

I did notice this for a few of my dates etc when having 'between' involved..
I think it is really a personal preference how to display dates.. And even then in some places AND device screen sizes it would be rather nice to be able to have a method of switching them. And I will have to think a bit more on the right display method for me!! I get a bit pedantic about some stuff for sure.. <SMILE>

Greg makes a valid point and shows willing to look at something if he can find all the right rules for the various languages and such. I will have a little bit more of a look at the abstractcalendardate file..

If it helps any at all I have set the 'Gregorian' Date with no conversion..

Thanks for the help and input All.. Somewhere will be the right answer.. ?Just WHERE?' is the right question me thinks <SMILE>