Joomla Websites Always Showing Today's Date

Here's a little fix we came across today while trying to find out why blog posts on this site had started always showing today's date. Even if a post was written in 2006 or 2007 it would show a 2010 date. Thanks to Anthony from Joomla Bamboo for helping me find the fix.

The problem is with overrides and you're likely to find them in this folder: / templates / your-template-name / html / com_content / article / default.php

The correct date line is going to look similar to this:

<?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->article->created, JText::_('<div class="month">%b</div><div class="day">%d</div>%Y')); ?>

I've highlighted the two elements that need changing: JText::_( before the opening div and an extra ) at the end. The original line is likely to be found in templates that were created around Joomla 1.5.13 and earlier. It's more likely to look like this:

<?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->article->created, '<div class="month">%b</div><div class="day">%d</div>%Y'); ?>

Because commercial and custom templates often don't get updated along with the Joomla core, errors like this can remain on a site.

And yes, this post was really written in 2010.

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Your Comments (6)

bradon

February 03, 2010

good explanation..

Edvard Ananyan

February 04, 2010

Not sure if you have already fixed it, but for me it is still today for all your posts on your your http://www.alledia.com/blog/

steve

February 04, 2010

Ooops - thanks Edvard

I need to the fix the blog section override file too.

Rodel

February 05, 2010

nice one!

rodeldesign

February 05, 2010

Nice information. By the way, joomla bamboo rocks for many reasons. This is a new one!

TooN

March 10, 2010

Im not sure if this topic is related to it but i want to have the date next to the titles at the read more section. Just like showing here below....

can someone help me with this? will this be a core hack?

Thanks