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