Title: Bug with date format
Last modified: April 24, 2020

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# Bug with date format

 *  [Mauricio Lopez Coria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damonh/)
 * (@damonh)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-with-date-format/)
 * Date format option isn’t working in ContactForm7 version 5.1.7.
    I tried what
   plugin documentation explains, the format specified by the plugin developer and
   also different suggestions and examples from StackOverflow but nothing seems 
   to work.
 * The code I tried is as follows:
 *     ```
       <p>Cumpleaños (requerido)<br />
       [date* your-birthday _format_your-birthday "d-m-Y"] </p>
       ```
   
 * What I get in the front end is:
 * Cumpleaños (requerido)
    mm/dd/yyy
 * Is there some way to fix this?

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 * Last reply from: [Mauricio Lopez Coria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damonh/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-with-date-format/)
 * Status: not resolved