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I want to change the month in utl to subtract 1 from the current month

11 years ago in BLOX CMS • updated by 10 years ago • 4

I am using this:
[% asset.starttime('Y, n, j, G, i, s') %]

and where the month # is (n) I want to subtract 1 from the #.

Example: [% asset.starttime('Y, n -1, j, G, i, s') %]

My example doesn't work and is just an example of what I want to happen.

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10 years ago

Hi Craig! Can you provide a use case for this? I.E. what are you trying to do? There may be a better way to access the date through another method (like... getting the publish date of an asset, etc.)

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10 years ago

Can you just use the Unix time and subtract 30 days?

newdate = asset.starttime('U') - (30*3600);
echo newdate | datetime('Y, n, j, G, i, s');

It's not exactly one "month" but it's pretty close.

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10 years ago

I was creating a block to show a timer on how much time is left to view the article before it goes behind the paywall. I figured this out with js. See right rail under the ad. http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/test/
Thanks.