[Typo3] US Date

[Daniel Rahenkamp]

TYPO3 English <typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de> on Saturday, March 26,
2005 at 1:34 PM -0500 wrote:
><rant mode on>
>Defining these setup variables within an extension is a bad idea for
>those of us who 
>expect system setup "defaults" to be applicable to every extension. 
>While I respect the 
>notion of a near infinite ability to tweak and customize, when things
>like the way dates 
>are rendered are defined as a "global" constant and that's not respected
>throughout the 
>CMS defies logic and the purpose of having a global definition IMO.
><rant mode /off>

This is the main reason, I guess, that I am very confused here.
>
>If you are using tt_news (which I'm assuming you are) the date/time
>format is in the 
>setup.txt., which is found in the extension manager in the "edit files"
>area of the tt_news 
>extension.  

This I understand but it is any OTHER content element as in:

http://burnett.sdhc.k12.fl.us/web/fileadmin/user_upload/_temp_/datestartstop2.jpg

that I can't get my arms around enough to understand how to set this to
the US format. 
>
>
>I add the contents of that file to the setup area of my template and
>change the date 
>format and it works, providing you check the time/date.  Failure to do
>that brings up a 
>whole new set of problems :( which I've asked about, but have never seen
>a response :(.

I too have never seen any answers to this and I have posted this question
here a number of times but have seen no answers. I am not sure if there
are any or if it is in the Docs somewhere and I am being ignored. I am
frustrated.

Daniel Rahenkamp
Burnett Middle School
1010 Kingsway Road N.
Seffner, Florida 33584
813-744-6745
http://burnett.sdhc.k12.fl.us
daniel.rahenkamp at sdhc.k12.fl.us