Title: Cannot adjust date format
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Cannot adjust date format

 *  [kmallick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmallick/)
 * (@kmallick)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-adjust-date-format/)
 * I cannot seem to change the date format in custom field in the types plugin. 
   I understand it works with a jquery date picker. However the default format is
   month dd/yyyy. I need to change it to mm/dd/yyyy. Any suggestion on how to do
   that? Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/)

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 *  [thisismyalterego](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisismyalterego/)
 * (@thisismyalterego)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-adjust-date-format/#post-5113736)
 * Here is the solution. Some PHP knowledge might be useful.
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 * The “real” solution is to change some PHP in this file:
    / plugins / types / 
   embedded / includes / fields / date / functions.php
 * In the function wpcf_get_date_format() in this file the default format is defined.
   This needs to be changed if you want the format in the backend to be displayed
   different then F j, Y
 * also you might need to use this “manual” to make it bulletproof
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-in-backend?replies=3](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-in-backend?replies=3)

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