For quite sometime, the post date format has not bee what I wanted. It was displaying day-month-year ( 21-1-10). This was confusing some of my readers. I tried to change it in the WordPress dashboard under Settings, but it never made a difference. I searched for a solution and found several people had the same problem but no one actually had a good answer. However, one of the posts refered me to Customizing the Time and Date and while this was just the formatting of the date and time, it did give me a clue of what to look for.
WordPress is written in the programming language PHP. The date formatting functions in WordPress use PHP’s built-in date formatting functions. You can use the table of date format characters on the PHP website as a reference for building date format strings for use in WordPress.
Armed with this information, I went to my WordPress dashboard and clicked on Appearance and then Editor. Then I started going through the Template Theme files. Sure enough, I found <?php the_time(‘D m-d-Y’) in the Main Index Template (index.php) file. So I went back to the Format page to see what options I had and decided on the day, month-date-year for my format. So I changed <?php the_time(‘D m-d-Y’) to <?php the_time(‘D, m-d-Y’) and then clicked on update. And as you can see, the dates of my posts, on the main page, now have the post date formatted the way I wanted.
The other place you can change the time and date format is in Single Post (single.php) which I did a little different that my main page. I decided to go with l, F jS, Y which will look like: Friday, January 22nd, 2010
UPDATE: I found a couple other places that needed to be changed in my theme. So here is a list of the files that I could change my date format in.
Archives (archive.php)
Comments (comment.php)
Main Index Template (index.php)
Single Post (single.php)
Hope this helps. If you have any questions, leave me a comment and I will try to help.
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Only american arrogant ignorants confuse this date format…the rest of the World uses D-M-Y, as with metres for distance, kilos for weight, comma for decimals, dots for thousands, football for your soccer etc.Open up your eyes and align with the rest of the world.
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Alas, this is not working for me. I’m trying to remove the S from the date format, which adds “st” or “rd” to the numbers in dates. I can see it and delete it, but when I click Update, the S returns to the code. This happens in all the .php files I’ve tried to edit. I’d be most grateful for any ideas.
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This pointed me in the right direction too, but what am I missing here? I’m assuming it’s a copy/paste typo when you suggest to change
“<?php the_time(‘D, m-d-Y’)"
to
"<?php the_time(‘D, m-d-Y’)"
considering that this is the same code. I assume the former call parameter list is supposed to read ('D, d-m-Y') because replacing some code with the exact same code won't actually change anything. Thought you would like to know (as opposed to spam/users 'wholesale shoes', 'registry cleaner', and 'home loan'), I am a real person wanting to write and liking wordpress just working through the various confusions in the themes I'm evaluating.
Barry, thank you very much for pointing this out. I remember when this happened and for some reason I never got around to fixing it and forgot about it.
I’m fixing it now. Thanks again!
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