Title: Date Format
Last modified: June 9, 2017

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# Date Format

 *  Resolved [ssgupta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ssgupta/)
 * (@ssgupta)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-116/)
 * While different browsers show different date formats for the date field in the
   Admin side, the output on the front side is always YYYY.MM.DD.
 * Is there a way to have front end output per date format in general settings?
 * Thank you.
 * NB: Firefox doesn’t supports the date field at all.

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 *  Plugin Author [Chad Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbutlerjr/)
 * (@cbutlerjr)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-116/#post-9221342)
 * The field type “date” is an HTML5 specification. It is always in the format YYYY-
   MM-DD. You cannot change it.
 * Different browsers will handle it differently because they are unrestricted in
   how they display it (not to be confused with how the data is transported, which
   will always be YYYY-MM-DD). Webkit and Edge provide datepickers and may also 
   format based on the user’s locale. Firefox does not support it by default but
   has it as “[experimental](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Experimental_features)“.
 * If you want something that you can customize in terms of the format accepted,
   you should use a text field with a [date pattern](http://html5pattern.com/Dates)(
   regular expression or “regex”, which the plugin now also supports).

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