[twenty eleven] post date a mess – function not properly working

possibly caused by some missing or wrong options settings in the qtranslate plugin.

Strange! I have tried to look where the date and time functions are used in 20-11. I wonder whether and where

if ( ! function_exists( 'twentyeleven_posted_on' ) ) :
/**
 * Prints HTML with meta information for the current post-date/time and author.
 * Create your own twentyeleven_posted_on to override in a child theme
 *
 * @since Twenty Eleven 1.0
 */
function twentyeleven_posted_on() {
	printf( __( '<span class="sep">Posted on </span><a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="%3$s" pubdate>%4$s</time></a><span class="by-author"> <span class="sep"> by </span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%5$s" title="%6$s" rel="author">%7$s</a></span></span>', 'twentyeleven' ),
		esc_url( get_permalink() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_date() ),
		esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
		sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentyeleven' ), get_the_author() ),
		esc_html( get_the_author() )
	);
}
endif;

(code from functions.php of 20-11)

uses the settings in Settings->General.

Bernhard

I was not content with 20-11, thus I changed to emptiness as a theme: That resulted in an improved date (still some persent-P symbol) which I do not understand, and more important for me, in sidebars on single post or article pages.

now the_date() function returns
19 Aug 2011, 10:19%P

Does anyone know where the %P comes from?

Thanks for answers

Bernhard

Hi Bernhard,

I don’t know if you’ve already solved your problem or not, but ’cause I’ve faced the same problem, I may suggest a solution to you. As alchymyth already suggested, you may want to check the settings of your qTranslate-Plugin. Simply try out different Date-Options in Advanced Settings.
For me, I’ve just changed from “emulated-date” to “strftime” and it worked fine.

And about the ‘%p’ according to PHP-Manual, depend on upper- or lower-case of ‘p’, it gives you back the ‘am/pm’ string. Just take a look at PHP-Manual for Functions: Date-Time for ‘date‘ or ‘strftime‘.

Cheers,
A.

I got it. You were both correct, but I didnot find the date / strftime settings. Now I looked in the qtranslate settings and found them. Well, I have settled in the meantime for emptiness as theme. That fits also nicely.

Thanks a lot!

Bernhard