Questions tagged [datetime]
Use it for questions about handling date or time through any module. Don't use it if you are already using "calendar" as tag.
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Field gets unset and fails validation in user edit form
We have a special date field that we set upon user creation when our custom user form is submitted. The user does not have to set this field themselves.
We have a separate form, which is a user edit ...
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Change default format for date field on user register form
I'm new to Drupal 8. In the user registration form, i've added a Date field via manage fields in user account settings. However, I need to customize this field and change its format. I tried 'manage ...
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In views, how do I show posts from this calendar day, ten years ago?
I have a view in which I want to display posts that I made on this date 10 years ago. I can get close but not exactly what I want by setting the view's filter to the following:
"Authored On is ...
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Date difference with taxonomy field
I'm using D8 and I have a little problem with calculating age.
I have a taxonomy term "Animal". It has a "name" and "date of birth" field.
I have a content type "Test Results". It has a "date of ...
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How to display since when the node was created? [duplicate]
How to display since when the node was created with TWIG. Here is the templace of my node :
<div class="card mb-5 p-0 overflow-hidden shadow rounded bg-white">
<div class="card-header ...
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How can I display the time passed since a comment was created instead of the creation date?
how to personalize my comments ?
I want to display since when the comment was created instead of the date.
I want to display the comment ID with the link "permalink".
Can you help me ? Thank you
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How to Restrict views Date popup to only year/month
I want to have views exposed filter on node created field with popup.
I've installed date_popup, the popup appears but I'm looking for a way to restrict it to only year and month.
I tried the ...
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I would like to create a field type “Time” [closed]
not within or as a date.
If I use a number field, I'm not able to display a colon instead of comma or decimal dot.
How would you solve this problem?
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how to convert a timestamp into a date format in a custom module [duplicate]
I created a custom module and printed this outcome in .csv.
Name,Event,Email,Timestamp
Ea Iustum Jus,Fifa,example@asdf.wer,1573924224
How do I convert the timestamp in a date format?
I tried with $...
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How to change the date format in the date field as a select list?
On user registration page, I have added a date field in select list.
In the manage form display tab, I can set the order of the dropdown fields like day/month/year or month/day/year But I am unable ...
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How do I programmatically save “2019-11-04 07:30:00+01”?
I have "2019-11-04 07:30:00+01" as datetime value. I am not getting how to handle the "+1" part in a Drupal 8 date field.
I am using this code, but it's not giving me any value.
use Drupal\Core\...
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Combining Date Start and Date End in Drupal 8 Views Block
I am new to Drupal 8 Views - How do you concatenate Event Start Date Sept 1, 2019 with Event end Date ie: Sept 4, 2019? The end result is they just want the Month and Day to show up like this Sept 1-4....
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Views date exposed filter by year in checkboxes
I have date field. In views I want to add the a date exposed filter.
This filter will only display year and we can select multiple years.
Just like this
I have checked the better exposed filter ...
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Filter excludes date in end date field
I have a view in Drupal 8 as below.
[The date column in below list, is not an event. its order item. so date showing is order complete date only]
When I filter with start and end date, the data shown ...
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How to show date as “XX ago” (only two digits) in comments/node/taxonomy/blocks? [duplicate]
This code works for comments but I need to display the date in two digits (XX minutes, XX hours, X year) not as "XX hours XX minutes" for example. And I need to apply this format for the rest of the ...
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Calendar/datepicker popup not working on safari
Below is the date type form field I have in some form which renders on chrome correctly.
$form['date']['air_date'] = array (
'#type' => 'date',
'#title' => t('Air Date:'),
'#required' =&...
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Views exposed date filter range format
I have a view with an exposed filter for a date range. I use jquery ui datepicker to select dates. It works good and I can select dates in spanish format (dd/mm/yyyy). But when I apply the filter, It ...
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Instantiate DateTime with localized time [duplicate]
I'm trying to migrate some data from MySQL DateTime format. Here's one:
$old_date = "2019-05-06 08:00:00"
My content type has a custom field using DateTime.
Using the info from SO links below, I ...
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Date input format problem
I need to import a large dataset (over 300,000 records) into a Drupal 8 site. I have figured out how to do this with feeds on a small test dataset.
The dates in the records are in the format June 8, ...
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How to refer to the node created date in Computed Field PHP
I am using the Computed Field module in D8. I am trying to compute some dates using the node created date as the start point.
As my first try, this code works:
$valuein = $entity->field_datefield-...
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Format date field in twig
Date field having multiple values. Need to format the output.
{% for item in items %}
<div{{ attributes }}>{{ item.content|date(format="F j, Y") }}</div>
{% endfor %}
item.content ...
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How do I create a time range form field?
Is there any way to add time range input fields in a form, for example using code similar to the following one?
$form['notification_hours'] = array(
'#type' => 'time_range', // type time_range ...
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Get difference between two dates programatically
In summary:
On a Drupal 8 project, i am trying to programatically get the difference between two different times (current time - Node creation time)
Use case:
I have "nodeabc" already available on ...
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Filter a view with contextual authored date
I have a Drupal 8 view where I want to sort nodes by authored year using contextual filters.
So www.mysite.com/2017
will list all nodes from 2017.
I set up the filter using 'Content: Created Year' ...
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Upgrade breaks Rest Export View in Calendar [closed]
We have a website that uses Views with a serializer rest export to display events on a monthly calendar. When we upgraded from 8.6.16 to 8.7.3 the calendar display is blank. All the json information ...
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Drupal Event Calendar module - Can I make the end time of an event dependent on another field?
I am using the Event Calendar module to create "music classes" for a school of music. They have three levels of classes:
Beginner - each class is 30 minutes long
Intermediate - each class is 40 ...
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How to declare field type DATETIME and set the default value
I have a problem but with the following code. I am creating the following Schema:
$schema['billfold'] = [
'description' => 'Stores example person entries for demonstration purposes.',
'...
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Can I use Moment.js to fix a client side date format issue?
Different Browser and OS show a different date format on client side. Given the following markup:
<input data-drupal-selector="edit-field-date-end-value-date" title="Date (e.g. 2019-05-15)" type="...
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How to create a pair of dates (date_combo) using the Form API?
The Date module provide a field type called date_combo that allows a date feld to collect both a start date and an end date.
It works as expected when I use the GUI to create a content type with a ...
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How do I use the DateFormatter? [duplicate]
I am trying to use the DateFormatter so I can convert my unix time-stamp into a usuable date stamp that will be set on a custom form. This is my code:
$time = \Drupal::time()->...
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How to use date_date_callbacks
In Datetime.php from Core\Datetime\Element, I read:
#date_date_callbacks: Array of optional callbacks for the date element.
Can be used to add a jQuery datepicker.
What does it mean? How am I ...
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Convert current time from Unix timestamp to date format (d/m/y)
In my custom module (.module) file, I am using:
$current_time = \Drupal::time()->getCurrentTime();
date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
to get the current date... However, the date value is returned ...
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How to order datetime items chronologicaly on save
Is there a module or a simple way to order a multipe datetime/datetime_range field chronologicaly on every save? I want to be sure that the last item is always the last one.
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Date/Time not saved correctly?
I made a date range field, and after entering some values and saving on first glance it looks ok, if i entered 20:00:00h it will display the same, but in the DB when i look at the stored values it's -...
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How to restrict dates in the form widget?
I am attempting an upgrade and I am looking for something that mirrors the functionality of the Date Restrictions module
Basically, I used it to set relative limits,, something like no earlier than ...
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No default value for '#type' => 'date'?
is there a way to configure a date form so it has no default value?
Setting the default value to NULL sets the default value automatically to the current date.
/**
* @return array
*/
public ...
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custom module date formatter for publication date
I have a Drupal 8 contrib module AP Style Date that provides a formatter for dates to conform to the AP Style Guide date rules. When using the module Publication Date, this formatter does not come up ...
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Rules add date variable from webform submission
I have a webform where the user also submits date. I would like to populate a date type field with the submitted date. I tried making variable by "Add variable", but I do not know how to access my ...
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Date vs Timestamp field-type
My new project involves the requirement of manually setting a time of creation of nodes because they're looking into manually migrating parts of their old website into their new one. The date will ...
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Why is a ISO:8601 date within a time tag converted to zeroes?
I've been attaching Timeago script to my themes and it requires dates to be formatted like this.
<time class="timeago" datetime="2008-07-17T09:24:17Z">July 17, 2008</time>
In a view, I ...
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Upon submitting a webform, set a date field on the article node equals to “current time” + “X minutes”
I am using the Field Timer module to display countdown timer on my article node.
This module will take the value of the date/time field (my case: field_article_datetime) and convert it into a ...
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Set a date field equal to “current time” + “5 minutes” using tokens
I am using the Field Timer module to display countdown timer on my article node.
Say my article node has the date/time field named (field_article_datetime)
This module will take the value of the ...
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How to show the following n events with respect to the current date or the past events to always ensure n elements in the view?
I have an agenda on my homepage, and I want to always ensure 5 events.
If there are 5 or more following events (including the current one), show the nearest 5 from the start date.
If there is less, ...
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Serializing dates
In Drupal, we have the time printed as "2012-03-19 07:22".
What I need is just "\/Date(1198908717056)\/" or just "1198908717056".
I am trying to get that format using the following code.
use Drupal\...
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Create Custom Date Formatter for Date Posted Field
I followed a very helpful article by Antonio Benitez that gave some example code showing how to create a custom date formatter for date fields (How To Create a Custom Format for a Date Field). The ...
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Control Webform's date field (datepicker) from JS
I have to change number of months that's shown in datepicker of my date field in Webform, on desktop I need 2 months, but on mobile just 1.
I'm not able to control that using JS, so I created patch ...
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How to combine two date fields and alter its value programmatically based on field value?
I have two fields field_start_date and field_end_date and under manage display section I have set the field format for
field_start_date as F d
field_end_date as - d Y
I need to combine the two fields ...
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Datelist element in webform not working
I was just going through webform configurations and I changed the date list element format from default to raw. After doing this Im not able to add any element of type dateform to my webform and also ...
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How do I access datetime field formatter node values?
The DateTimeFormatterBase class is performing a ->setTimeZone incorrectly for my use case. How do I access the node values from where the $date passed to setTimeZone originated? Strange question I ...
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Copy Field Collection Data to Date Range Fields?
When our Drupal 8 website launched we used the Field Collection module so that some content types could store two or more dates for calculating a range, something not then supported on the platform.
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