Date Format in Email Templates

[Martyn Houghton]

Is it currently possible to change the display format of dates when they are inserted into a email template?

The reason being is that they default to YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, which is not the most human readable format. I would prefer to be able to format them as HH:MM DD/MM/YYYY.

If not possible to do on a template by template format, it would be good to have a system wide setting where you can specify the default format form email templates as a whole.

 

Cheers

Martyn

[Victor]

@Martyn Houghton as far as I know the date/time values in email templates will have the format defined in system settings... Try and changed these settings and see if the template picks up the new format...

[Martyn Houghton]

@Victor

Tried those settings and they do not appear to change the format used in the email template process. I presume the change would happen straight away. I have logged in and out just in case.

Cheers

Martyn

[Victor]

@Martyn Houghton indeed, it seems not... 

Did a bit more digging into this... the date/time format for these fields (date/time fields from requests) in email templates will have the format of the date/time set in user profile... for requests it refers to in which user context the email was sent...that will be the user.... Hope this makes sense, been a long day  

[Martyn Houghton]

@Victor

Thanks all sorted now. Seemed to take a while to pick up the change the date format in the context of the user sending the email from the request.

Cheers

Martyn