Title: Changing date text
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Changing date text

 *  Resolved [borbs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borbs/)
 * (@borbs)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-date-text/)
 * Hello!
 * Is there a way to add some text on my the_time?
 * like:
    <?php the_time(‘j de F de Y’) ?>
 * This “de” show me somethings about Los Angeles… I just want to show “de”. How?
   =]
 * Thank you!

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-date-text/#post-497586)
 * You can *escape out* any character you need to display literally (rather than
   have interpreted as part of the formatting string):
 * `<?php the_time('j \d\e F \d\e Y') ?>`
 *  Thread Starter [borbs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borbs/)
 * (@borbs)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-date-text/#post-497795)
 * YAY! It worked! =D
    Thanx! =]

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## Tags

 * [date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/date/)
 * [format](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/format/)
 * [the_time](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/the_time/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [borbs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borbs/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-date-text/#post-497795)
 * Status: resolved

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