Hide time in transaction mails with {{var order.getCreatedAtFormated(''short'')}}

Question

I have a little problem. I only want to display the date without time in my order mails.

For that I have to use {{var order.getCreatedAtFormated(''short'')}} afaik. But it is still showing the time. Of course I searched the Magento source and I am wondering why it's not working.

When I look into app/code/core/Mage/Sales/Model/Order.php I can find that:

/**
* Get formated order created date in store timezone
*
* @param   string $format date format type (short|medium|long|full)
* @return  string
*/

public function getCreatedAtFormated($format)
    {
        return Mage::helper('core')->formatDate($this->getCreatedAtStoreDate(), $format, true);
    }

Looking further into /app/code/core/Mage/Core/Helper/Data.php shows this:

public function formatDate($date = null, $format = Mage_Core_Model_Locale::FORMAT_TYPE_SHORT, $showTime = false)
{
    if (!in_array($format, $this->_allowedFormats, true)) {
        return $date;
    }
    if (!($date instanceof Zend_Date) && $date && !strtotime($date)) {
        return '';
    }
    if (is_null($date)) {
        $date = Mage::app()->getLocale()->date(Mage::getSingleton('core/date')->gmtTimestamp(), null, null);
    } else if (!$date instanceof Zend_Date) {
        $date = Mage::app()->getLocale()->date(strtotime($date), null, null);
    }

    if ($showTime) {
        $format = Mage::app()->getLocale()->getDateTimeFormat($format);
    } else {
        $format = Mage::app()->getLocale()->getDateFormat($format);
    }

    return $date->toString($format);
}

So shouldn't it already hide the time when I pass the short argument to that function?

Answer 1

Mage::helper('core')->formatDate(null, Mage_Core_Model_Locale::FORMAT_TYPE_SHORT, false);

The last parameter allows for time to be hidden:

public function formatDate($date = null, $format = Mage_Core_Model_Locale::FORMAT_TYPE_SHORT, $showTime = false)

That is very annoying of Magento really, to provide a wrapper to a method but not provide full access. Why they haven't written the method like the following I don't know...

public function getCreatedAtFormated($format, $showTime = true)
{
    return Mage::helper('core')->formatDate($this->getCreatedAtStoreDate(), $format, $showTime);
}

Answer 2

You have to override /app/code/local/Mage/Sales/Model/Order.php, create a new function

public function getCreatedAtFormatedHideTime($format)
{
    return Mage::helper('core')->formatDate($this->getCreatedAtStoreDate(), $format, false);
}

So you can call it from mail template:

{{var order.getCreatedAtFormatedHideTime('short')}}

Output:

01/01/2000