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Format Date to Display Abbreviated Month Name 11 Jun 2013 15:19 #7421

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In the snippet below, what do I need to set formatDate to in order to display the abbreviated month name:

I want to display something like Jan 01, 2013.

Here is the my snippet:
echo JDom::_('html.fly.datetime', array(
					'dataKey' => 'hire_date',
					'dataObject' => $this->item,
					'dateFormat' => "%Y.%m.%d"
					));

I tried "%b %m, %Y" with no luck.

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Re: Format Date to Display Abbreviated Month Name 11 Jun 2013 15:55 #7423

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Remove the %, they are not used.
'dateFormat' => "b m, Y"
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Re: Format Date to Display Abbreviated Month Name 11 Jun 2013 16:13 #7425

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This produces:
b 01, 2013
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Re: Format Date to Display Abbreviated Month Name 11 Jun 2013 16:35 #7427

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I can't find the docs for that, right now.

The output is given by Joomla. It is an odd format.
You can also read your lang files to check this string for standard datetime strings.

Can somebody help ?
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Re: Format Date to Display Abbreviated Month Name 11 Jun 2013 18:07 #7428

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This works for me:
"%b %m, %Y"

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Re: Format Date to Display Abbreviated Month Name 12 Jun 2013 13:47 #7451

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This is what I ended up with:

M d, Y


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