[Mike Reynolds]

I imported a membership list into connections successfully. On the birthday and anniversary fields I only had month and day, no year. Well connection assigned all records the year 2013. I there a way to only display month and year when putting a directory on our website (password protected page)?

[Paul Helm]

Similar question for me. We use Connections to track birthday and hire date anniversary for staff on our company Intranet. While knowing how many years they have been with the company are great, many would prefer to NOT have the YEAR listed for birthday.

How can I edit so the year is NOT on the birthday display?

[Ariel Parrish]

Me three — I’d like to show the Birthday and Anniversary dates without the year. I’d also like to change the label. I’m picking through the files now; there must be a way.

[Steven Zahm]

@ All

The only way to do this is to edit a core file. The file name is class.output.php.

The function you need to find in the file is named getDateBlock.

You’ll see this line:

$defaults['date_format'] = 'F jS Y';

Change it to:

$defaults['date_format'] = 'F jS';

I do have it on my to do list to add a setting option to override this.

To alter the label, I recommend doing it as mentioned in this forum topic.

[Mike Reynolds]

Thanks Steven, your solution worked perfectly for me.

[Paul Helm]

Yes, this worked to take the year off BOTH birthday and anniversary. It would be nice to be able to override for one or the other or both, as we would prefer to not list year for birthday, but list year for anniversary.

Thanks Steven.

[Dorte Stetter]

I need to translate the date format into danish. Could you deliver short codes that handles the date format?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dorte

Right now the only way to do that is to edit a core PHP file.

The next version of Connections slated for release within the next week will have a date format option in the settings. By default, it will inherit the date format set in the WordPress settings.

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