You can also take a look at this for an example of how to reorder extending views: http://community.elgg.org/plugins/1520344/1.0/group-tools-priority

You can always use elgg_unextend_view() to remove the views that you do not want to display.

What am I missing? Are you still searching for the physical location of that view or not?
If you have the shipped plugin 'developer tools' installed, just: develop: tools > inspect >views (submit) and then scroll down untill you find 'groups/tool_latest' click the little arrow and see where the physical view (or views if others are extending or overriding) is.

And you can always add the view to your own plugin if you really want it to have a physical location. You can then put your logic in there. But as Pawel suggested, you should really read up on the Elgg's views system. It's the pillar of Elgg, and if you don't understand how it works, you will have serious trouble moving on.

I do this on multiple computers without any problems (though I have never tried this through the web services API). Does it work for you when you request a standard HTML page from an Elgg site?

date("F j, Y", $post->time_created)

and that is called the 'friendy time' ;-) grep gives --> function elgg_get_friendly_time($time) in the core lib/outut

Thank you so much !!!