I am trying to change the date format in the Coming Events block for piCal. It reads the date as (for example) "1st July", and I would like it to read as "July 1, 2004". I cannot find how to do this after much searching and tinkering on my own. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I'd be interested in knowing how to do this too.

For anyone still looking for an answer, try this ...

If you want to change '26th Apr' to 'Apr 26th', edit piCal/language/english/pical_constants.php, and change this:

define('_PICAL_FMT_MD','%2$s %1$s') ;

to this:

define('_PICAL_FMT_MD','%1$s %2$s') ;


If you want to change '26th Apr' to 'Apr 26th 2005' edit piCal/class/piCal_xoops.php, and change this code in function get_block_array_coming_event (line 398):

$start_desc = sprintf( _PICAL_FMT_MD , $this->month_middle_names[ date( 'n' , $start_for_date ) ] , $this->date_long_names[ date( 'j' , $start_for_date ) ] ) ;

to this:

$start_desc = sprintf( _PICAL_FMT_YMD , $this->year, $this->date_long_names[ date( 'j' , $start_for_date ) ], $this->month_middle_names[ date( 'n' , $start_for_date ) ] ) ;

Hope someone finds this useful.

Ed