[Koha-win32] koha help request please!

[Allyson Bright]

Hello everyone-

 

I apologize if this is the incorrect forum for requesting help with Koha, but I am just at my wit's end, I've tried for 2 straight days to fix just this one thing, and I just can't get it to work.  I've tried reading all sorts of documentation, but am coming up with nothing.

 

Here's the problem...I installed Koha on windows, with Apache, mysql, and perl.  Everything is up and running just fine, got the graphics scheme changed, etc.  All works and looks perfect, except one thing.  The date format needs to be changed.  I'm working at a small nonprofit organization in Iowa, and the metric date format dd/mm/yy is too confusing for the people we serve, just because they are not used to it (sorry if I sound like an irritating American here).  I changed the date in system parameters, but that didn't do anything except change the database entry for dateformat.  I went through the lines of code in every *.pl file and got rid of the "Slashifydate" command in every place it appeared, so the date now appears in the yyyy-mm-dd format, which is better, but still not what I'm going for.  Plus, there are places that the date still appears as dd/mm/yy (such as the detail.pl screen for biblio details), despite this change.  I really need it to show the dates in mm/dd/yy format, or at least get them all into yyyy-mm-dd, but what I really need is for them to show up as mm/dd/yy or mm/dd/yyyy.  If there is any way you can help me with this, please reply asap.  I'm just at the end of my rope, and the project deadline is coming up very soon.

 

Also--I am a woman with very little to no programming experience.  I've been reading "teach yourself perl" sporadically, but that's my only knowledge of the program.  Programming isn't my specialty or even in my job description, it just happened that we had a need for koha, and since I'm the most technically literate of the bunch, I got the job.  But I still know very little, so I need really exact instructions on how to fix this, what lines to change, etc.  I'm sorry if that's a pain, but I just really don't know that much!  I'm using Koha because I didn't know how to design a program like this from scratch, or even the databases.  I'm learning a lot as I go, but still need a lot of help.  Just this one last date formatting issue needs to be fixed, and after that, I should be all set.

 

If you can be of any help, I would greatly appreciate it!!  Thank you SOOO much!

 

-Allyson Bright