title: Yii custom date format (pattern)
body: <p>Is there a way to specify your own date pattern besides the included ones (small, medium, full). The main point here is that it should work with i18n. I've tried a couple of things but I couldn't get it to work...</p>
  
  <pre><code>Yii::app()-&gt;dateFormatter-&gt;format("l d/m/Y",$slide-&gt;date_start);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know about <code>strftime</code> but the problem here is that different hosting providers use different locale string... and you have to customize it...</p>
  
  <p>I'm looking for an elegant way of doing this.</p>
  
  <p>I'd like to display the date in <code>l d/m/Y</code> form...</p>
  
  <p>Update:
  Never mind... I've just found out that <code>dateFormatter</code> doesn't use standard php date format...</p>