Title: Change datetime in posts
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Change datetime in posts

 *  [da1k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/da1k/)
 * (@da1k)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-datetime-in-posts/)
 * Hello,
 * In post there is for example “Publicated about 12 hours ago”. I want to changed
   it to “Publicated 10.01.2015”. I have found that code below is probably responsible
   for this. Does anyone know how to change it?
 * `Published <span class=\"entry-date\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"%
   1$s\">%2$s</time></span> at <a href=\"%3$s\">%4$s &times; %5$s</a> in <a href
   =\"%6$s\" rel=\"gallery\">%7$s</a>`
 * best regards,

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 *  [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/)
 * (@rossmitchell)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-datetime-in-posts/#post-5656102)
 * The text for “about 12 hours ago” is generated by a call to function “human_time_diff”
   in file “wp-includes/formatting.php”
    You will want to replace the result it 
   returns. It is trickier than you expect since the time has to be corrected for
   your timezone (it would be better if it were the viewer’s timezone) before calculating
   the date. Please also be aware that there are different date conventions, commonest
   in the USA is “mm-dd-yyyy” while the rest of the world mostly use “dd-mm-yyyy”,
   unambiguous options are “yyyy-mm-dd” or “dd-mmm-yyyy”, where mmm is the 3 character
   month apreviation like “Jan”. Also keep in mind that one day you might want the
   website to be translated.

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