cakephp 3 displaying date without time

Question

CakePHP 3: I have a database field which is a DATE (not DATETIME nor TIMESTAMP)

When I display

echo $contact->date;

It will show something like 2014. 01. 06. 0:00. How to hide hours and minutes?

I tried

print $this->Time->format($contact->date, 'Y-m-d');

but I got 2014-0-6

How to get year-month-day?

rrd

Answer 1

You can directly print the date object in any custom date String format by using the inbuilt i18nFormat function.

$frozenDateObj->i18nFormat('dd-MMM-yyyy');

Use Datetime Format Syntax reference for more customization

Answer 2

Have you tried this?

echo $contact->date->format('Y-m-d');

Answer 3

add in App\Controller:

use Cake\I18n\Time;
Time::$defaultLocale = 'es-ES';
Time::setToStringFormat('YYYY-MM-dd');