Accessible function or class from all tpl pages

ctgraham · July 22, 2016, 12:06pm

Have you already ruled out making this change in config.inc.php via the system-wide date formatting directives?

pkp/ojs/blob/ojs-stable-2_4_8/config.TEMPLATE.inc.php#L58


      
          ; Set this to On if you have set up the scheduled tasks script to
          ; execute periodically
          scheduled_tasks = Off
          
          ; Scheduled tasks will send email about processing
          ; only in case of errors. Set to off to receive
          ; all other kind of notification, including success,
          ; warnings and notices.
          scheduled_tasks_report_error_only = On
          
          ; Short and long date formats
          date_format_trunc = "%m-%d"
          date_format_short = "%Y-%m-%d"
          date_format_long = "%B %e, %Y"
          datetime_format_short = "%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p"
          datetime_format_long = "%B %e, %Y - %I:%M %p"
          time_format = "%I:%M %p"
          
          ; Use URL parameters instead of CGI PATH_INFO. This is useful for
          ; broken server setups that don't support the PATH_INFO environment
          ; variable. Use of this mode is recommended as a last resort.

If so, you might be interested in looking at the work started in this plugin: