Might have something to do with setting the locales in your site in _config.php:

// Set the site locale (this one is in dutch)
i18n::set_locale('nl_NL');
i18n::set_default_locale('nl_NL');

setlocale(LC_TIME, i18n::get_locale() . '.utf8');

I use this and it works in the CMS fields and it works:

$df->setConfig('dateformat', 'dd-MM-YYYY');

hope this helps a bit.

@Noel

Maybe something like this in your template:

<% control FewChildren(3) %>
<% end_control %>

and something like this in you controller:

function FewChildren($limit) {
        $littlechildren = DataObject::get("SiteTree", "ParentID = $this->ID", "", null, $limit);
        return $littlechildren;
    }

@bartvanirsel

thanks, but that did not work... :(

I have exactly this problem, out of the box using the tutorial code.

Tutorial works fine if I omit the date when saving a new article, but as soon as I enter text in for the date field in the articlepage, I get error saving content message.

PHP log shows this: PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/www/sapphire/thirdparty/Zend/Locale/Format.php on line 665

This line of code is: $day = iconv_strpos($format, 'd');

I have inconv installed in my php.ini - any ideas?

Anything to do with me setting up DB as unicode? vs. my php.ini iconv saying:

iconv

iconv support enabled
iconv implementation libiconv
iconv library version 1.13

Directive Local Value Master Value
iconv.input_encoding ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1
iconv.internal_encoding ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1
iconv.output_encoding ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1

Very frustrating that out of the box the simple tutorial doesn't work with not much guidance on dependencies if this is the problem.

Thanks for any help.

Hi dk! Did you get this to work in the end because I am stuck on the same problem... Hilda

I have the same problem as dk and others. It's driving me nuts! Has anyone solved this?

Thanks

Hi Rod, I got this answer from Will.... Have made the change but have not had a chance to test it yet. Hope it works!

>>>
Hi Hilda,

As the error message states in that "Fatal error</b>: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded".. You will need to up the execution time for your server.

This is a general PHP level configuration rather than SilverStripe specific so you can find more documentation on how to do this online eg http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=26407

Cheers
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Will Rossiter | Developer
SilverStripe
http://www.silverstripe.com

Hi Will,

It's the fact that it's timing out that's the issue though. If I omit the date in the date field, the page saves instantly. As soon as I try saving with a date entered it times out. Can you think of anything else that could be causing this? I have the exact symptoms mentioned by dk.

Liam