In Joomla using JHTML::calendar, is there a way to output Day, mm,dd?

Question

It's pretty straight forward to use echo JHTML::calendar('', 'date', 'dob', '%Y-%m-%d'); to get the date as 2014-07-01. Is there a way to get Tue 07-01? I don't need the year. I can't find any reference to getting the actual day of the week.

Answer 1

The bit you need to update is %Y-%m-%d - This is formatting the date.

I think it is using this system : http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/templates/date_variable_formatting.html and so %D %m-%d should work, though I haven't had chance to test that.

edit: %a seems to work instead of %D for the day