SFTrade allows you to set the format that you want dates and times displayed in. Many countries use differing formats to display their dates and times, so this feature will allow you to have your dates and times in a format that the majority of your visitors will understand. The date and time format system used by SFTrade is based on the date and time format feature of PHP. If you have experience working with PHP date and time formats, you'll have no problem with these. Even if you don't, these formats are very straight forward and easy to understand.

The date and time formats you want to use are configured through the SFTrade Global Settings interface. In the control panel, select the Global Settings option from the Settings menu. The Global Settings pop window will display, and in the Localization Settings section you will find the Date Format and Time Format fields. This is where you will make the changes to your date and time formats. Once you have made the changes you want, press the Apply Changes button to save your new settings.

Date and time format specifiers consist of a series of characters. You can find a complete list of these characters below for both dates and times. Using a combination of these specifiers you can create complete date and time formats. Note that SFTrade will only pay attention to the defined characters; all other characters in your date or time format will be left alone. This allows you to use separators such as forward-slashes, dashes, and colons as you like.

      d - day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros; i.e. "01" to "31"
      j - day of the month without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "31"
      D - day of the week, textual, 3 letters; i.e. "Fri"
      l - day of the week, textual, long; i.e. "Friday"
      M - month, textual, 3 letters; i.e. "Jan"
      F - month, textual, long; i.e. "January"
      m - month, 2 digits with leading zeros; i.e. "01" to "12"
      n - month without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "12"
      Y - year, 4 digits; i.e. "1999"
      y - year, 2 digits; i.e. "99"
      

      a - "am" or "pm"
      A - "AM" or "PM"
      h - hour, 12-hour format; i.e. "01" to "12"
      H - hour, 24-hour format; i.e. "00" to "23"
      g - hour, 12-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "12"
      G - hour, 24-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. "0" to "23"
      i - minutes; i.e. "00" to "59"
      s - seconds; i.e. "00" to "59"
      

For any purposes other than the {datelocale} template function you will use the date and time formats listed above. However, when you are using the {datelocale} function the formats listed below must be used instead.

      %a - abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale
      %A - full weekday name according to the current locale
      %b - abbreviated month name according to the current locale
      %B - full month name according to the current locale
      %c - preferred date and time representation for the current locale
      %C - century number (the year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer, range 00 to 99)
      %d - day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to 31)
      %D - same as %m/%d/%y
      %e - day of the month as a decimal number, a single digit is preceded by a space (range ' 1' to '31')
      %g - like %G, but without the century.
      %G - The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number
      %h - same as %b
      %H - hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23)
      %I - hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12)
      %j - day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366)
      %m - month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12)
      %M - minute as a decimal number
      %n - newline character
      %p - either `am' or `pm' according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale
      %r - time in a.m. and p.m. notation
      %R - time in 24 hour notation
      %S - second as a decimal number
      %t - tab character
      %T - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S
      %u - weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Monday
      %U - week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week
      %W - week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week
      %w - day of the week as a decimal, Sunday being 0
      %x - preferred date representation for the current locale without the time
      %X - preferred time representation for the current locale without the date
      %y - year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99)
      %Y - year as a decimal number including the century
      %Z or %z - time zone or name or abbreviation
      %% - a literal `%' character