Format Date in Content Query

Question

I have looked through too many threads about this and have made no progress.

So far the following links have helped me the most:

Content Query WebPart & Date

How to format Date in Content Query Web Part?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joshuag/archive/2009/03/25/custom-date-formats-in-sharepoint-xsl.aspx

I am still not getting the date to format though. I think it is just that I don't know where exactly to place the appropriate code.

I am putting the Date I need formatted in the Description field of the Presentation but the description will not always have a date so I cannot change the default (or can I?). I added the TitleDate template from the first link and then edited a line in it to the following:

<xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDate(@TaskDueDate, 1033, 3)" />

Thank you in advance. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

If the date you are trying to format is part of a string value with other than just a date, you cannot change it.

I.e. if you're @Description field contains a string like "This is my string with a date 06/11/2016 that I want changed to Sunday, November 2016" then you cannot change the date format.

The example you mention that you've copied, that just applies the format change on a separate field which only contains a date and then inserts that separately in the template.