https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Changing the date format en Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:50:12 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/changing-the-date-format#post-9841 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:04:24 +0000 redityo 9841@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>You can edit "helper-functions.php" file to change "date_created" format. Go to line 307 and you'll see this code :</p> <pre><code>$template_values[$i] = $date_created;</code></pre> <p>then change the code with this</p> <pre><code>$template_values[$i] = date(&quot;d/m/Y&quot;,strtotime($date_created));</code></pre> <p>And to give a style into "date_created" field, the easiest way is define the style in mail "content" box it self. For example like this :</p> <pre><code>{entry_data} &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom:1px solid #DEDEDE;padding:5px 10px;background-color:#F3F7FB;margin-top:-10px&quot;&gt; {date_created}&lt;/div&gt;</code></pre> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/changing-the-date-format#post-9830 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:40:49 +0000 takemura 9830@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I've noticed that dates used in the view_entry.php, and in the emails when I used the template variable {date_created, are in the Japanese format i.e. year first.</p> <p>How can I change this globally so that all date formats in my admin screen and in emails generated are in the UK format, i.e. DD/MM/YYYY</p> <p>Also, in the emails screen I wanted to add the date to the email notifications so I entered the template variable in the 'content' box as follows:</p> <p>{entry_data}<br /> {date_created}</p> <p>But, the entry data is nicely formatted in columns with zebra striping but the date isn't formatted in the same way. Again, how can I make it so it's formatted in the same way as the entry data? </p>