Consistent date format

I’m trying to achieve a consistent date format (different from the default) in a web application.

This includes both date display and date parsing / validation. Additional confusion comes from the fact that CFormatter and CDateTimeParser use different format specifications (‘d.m.Y’ vs. ‘dd.MM.yyyy’ in my case).

Is there a way to adjust the default components from application configuration? Or do I have to create a params[‘dateFormat’] application parameter? Or two of them?

i don’t think there is an application ‘default’ i rather think the default is the PHP one

and if you were reading http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

you’d see that d.m.Y outputs as 24.02.2011, if you would do dd.MM.yyyy, you would get 2424.FebFeb.11111111

There are some Yii defaults as well. Like here and here. I was wandering if I could somehow change thiese via configuration.