Formats a date variable according to a given format string. Locale information can be defined optionally. Depending on the syntax of the format this method internally uses either PHP's date or strftime function to format a date string. Use the :now variable to get the current date.
@{ date | dateFormat (format) }
format parameter. It is also possible to pass multiple comma separated as locale information in case a locale is known under different names on different systems or for providing a fallback.Note that the required locale information has to be installed on the server!
The example below is taken from the Filtering and Sorting tutorial and will return a date formatted as Month YYYY using the date syntax.
@{ date | dateFormat ('F Y') }
The runtime variable :now can be used to get the current date. The following example generates a simple copyright notice:
© @{ :now | dateFormat('Y') } by @{ sitename }
You can also use a variable to let the user define the date format:
@{ date | dateFormat (@{ format }) }
To be able to translate week days and month names according to a given locale, it is possible to use the strftime syntax for the format parameter in combination with the optional locale parameter as follows:
@{ date | dateFormat ('%A, %d. %B %Y', 'de_DE') }
It is also possible to pass multiple values for the locale parameter:
@{ date | dateFormat ('%A, %d. %B %Y', 'de_DE, deu_deu') }