Using concrete dates instead of relative ones in admin

[creativejay]

In things like PageLister and Form entries, date fields are displayed as relative (2 seconds ago, 22 hours ago, 3 days ago). Is there an easy way (a universal setting) to toggle these to display the actual date and time?

[Robin S]

You can use a hook to replace all relative time strings in admin with a specific date format. Add the following to /site/templates/admin.php, at the top after the namespace declaration:

$wire->addHookBefore('WireDateTime::relativeTimeStr', function(HookEvent $event) {
	$timestamp = $event->arguments(0);
	// If given a date string, convert it to a timestamp
	if(!ctype_digit("$timestamp")) $timestamp = strtotime($timestamp);
	$event->replace = true;
	// Set your preferred date format below
	$event->return = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp);
});

 

[adrian]

Nice one @Robin S !

[adrian]

Just one thing to consider - it may result in some weirdness when both actual and relative versions are shown together, eg:

[creativejay]

Perfect, thank you Robin! And thanks for the bit to consider, adrian!

[Robin S]

15 hours ago, adrian said:

Just one thing to consider - it may result in some weirdness when both actual and relative versions are shown together

Depending on how much mixing of relative and absolute dates occur on a single page, it might be possible to avoid those scenarios by excluding specific processes and/or URL segments, e.g.

if($page->process != 'ProcessPageEdit') {
	$wire->addHookBefore('WireDateTime::relativeTimeStr', function(HookEvent $event) {
		$timestamp = $event->arguments(0);
		// If given a date string, convert it to a timestamp
		if(!ctype_digit("$timestamp")) $timestamp = strtotime($timestamp);
		$event->replace = true;
		// Set your preferred date format below
		$event->return = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp);
	});
}