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Change Publication Date and Time Format (HTML5)

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Use the HTML5 Layout Editor to control the format of the publication date for HTML5 Help Center outputs.

  1. Select Layout in the top menu.

    Paligo editor. The Layout option in the header menu is highlighted.

    Paligo displays a list of Layouts. The list is empty if there are no custom Layouts in your Paligo instance.

  2. Select the Layout you want to update or Create a Layout.

    Tip

    You can copy the URL of the Layout Editor and paste it into a new tab in your browser. This can be useful if you frequently switch between your Paligo content and the Layout settings.

  3. Select General in the sidebar.

    Layout_General_HTML5_small.png

  4. Define the date format for the pubdate element in the Today's date for publication date field.

    Which date format to select depends on whether the setting Use translatable publication date is enabled or not.

    Todays_Date_Pub_Date_small.jpg

    Note

    Be aware that:

    • If you add an empty pubdate element to your publication topic, Paligo will automatically insert the date when you publish. It will use the date format you set in the Layout.

    • If Today's date for publication date is left empty, the publication date will not appear in the output.

    • If you have a pubdate element and it contains content inside it, such as a text date or a variable, that content takes priority. Paligo will ignore the Today's date for publication date value.

    • If the format you define in Today's date for publication date is not supported, Paligo will include the format value in the output.

  5. Use translatable publication date to control whether a full-text date format for the pubdate element should automatically be converted into other languages.

    For example, you could have 28 March 2024 in English. For a Swedish output, Paligo would translate the date to 28 mars 2024.

    Use_Translatable_Pub_Date_small.jpg

    Select one of the following options:

    • Enabled to activate the auto-translation. Use EXSLT Date Format in Today's date for publication date.

    • Disabled to deactivate the auto-translation. Use PHP Date Format in Today's date for publication date.

    • Default to inherit the value for this setting from the base Layout. The base Layout is either a built-in Layout provided by Paligo or another custom Layout, see Layout Relationships - Base, New, Duplicate.

  6. Use leading zero padding to control whether the date should have a leading zero for single-digit dates (when using EXSLT Date Format).

    Use_Leading_Zero_Padding_small.jpg

    Select one of the following options:

    • Enabled to use a leading zero (for example 03).

    • Disabled to use a single digit (for example 3).

      Use the PHP Date Format. It supports leading zeros by the use of different codes.

    • Default to inherit the value for this setting from the base Layout. The base Layout is either a built-in Layout provided by Paligo or another custom Layout, see Layout Relationships - Base, New, Duplicate.

  7. Select Save.

When you publish with this Layout, the output will use the publication date settings you have chosen.

EXSLT Date Format

Use the following codes in settings where you need to specify a date and time format in the EXSLT date format:

Code

Description

Example of output

a

Day abbreviation

Mon

A

Day name

Monday

b

Month abbreviation

Aug

B

Month name

August

c

ISO data and time, including UTC offset

2024-02-27T10:01:40-05:00

Where T is a delimiter between the date and time.-05:00 is the offset from UTC, in this example, 5 hours behind UTC.

d

Day in month

12

H

Hour in day

10

j

Day in year

164

m

Month in year

08

M

Minute in hour

29

S

Second in minute

18

U

Week in year

33

w

Day in week

(Sunday = 1)

2

Y

Year

2024

PHP Date Format

Use the following codes when you need to specify a date and time format in a setting that requires the PHP date format:

Character

Description

Example of output

d

Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros

01 to 31

D

Three letter representation of the day

Mon to Sun

j

Day of month without leading zeros

1 to 31

l

Full text of day of the week

Monday to Sunday

N

ISO 8601 numeric representation of the day of the week

1 for Monday through 7 for Sunday

S

English ordinal suffix of the day of the month, shown as 2 characters

st, nd, rd, or th

w

Numeric representation of the day of the week

0 for Sunday to 6 for Saturday

z

Day of the year, starting from 0

0 to 365

W

1SO 8601 week number of the year, with weeks starting on Monday

42

For 42nd week in the year

F

Full text of month

January

m

Numeric representation of month, with leading zeros

01 to 12

M

Short text for month, three letters

Jan through Dec

n

Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros

1 through 12

t

Number of days in the month

28 through 31

L

Leap year

1 if leap year, 0 if not a leap year

o

ISO 8601 week-numbering year.

This has the same value as Y, except that if the ISO week number (W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead.

2024

X

Not supported in Paligo

N/A

x

Not supported in Paligo

N/A

Y

Full numeric representation of a year. Has at least 4 digits or - for years BCE

-0055, 1999, 2024

y

Two digit representation of a year

03 or 24

a

Lowercase Ante meridiem (am) and Post meridiem (pm)

am or pm

A

Uppercase Ante meridiem (am) and Post meridiem (pm)

AM or PM

B

Swatch Internet time

000 through 999

g

12-hour format of an hour, no leading zeros

1 through 12

G

24-hour format of an hour, no leading zeros

0 through 23

h

12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros

01 through 12

H

24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros

00 through 23

i

Minutes with leading zeros

00 to 59

s

Seconds with leading zeros

00 to 59

u

Microseconds

Note that date() will always generate 000000 since it takes an int parameter.

DateTime::format() does support microseconds if DateTime was created with microseconds.

654321

v

Milliseconds.

Note that date() will always generate 000000 since it takes an int parameter.

DateTime::format() does support microseconds if DateTime was created with microseconds.

654

e

Timezone identifier

UTV, GMT, Atlantic/Azores

I

Indicates if date is in daylight saving time

1 for Daylight Saving Time

0 for not Daylight Saving Time

O

Difference to Greenwich Meantime (GMT). No colon between hours and minutes.

+0200

P

Difference to Greenwich Meantime (GMT). Colon between hours and minutes.

+02:00

p

Difference to Greenwich Meantime (GMT) but returns z instead of +00:00. Colon between hours and minutes.

z or +02:00

T

Timezone abbreviation, if known, otherwise GMT offset.

EST, MDT, or +05

Z

Timezone offset in seconds. Timezone offsets west of UTC is always negative. East of UTC is always positive.

-43200 through 50400

c

ISO 8601 date

2024-02-12T15:17:21+00:00

r

» RFC 2822/» RFC 5322 formatted date

Thu, 21 Dec 2024 16:01:07 +0200

U

Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)

1769548800

This table is based on information on php.net.

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