Title: Date Format and Syntax
Last modified: September 6, 2021

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# Date Format and Syntax

 *  Resolved [afostre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afostre/)
 * (@afostre)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-and-syntax/)
 * I’m experiencing problems with the Job Manager importer in relation to the Date
   fields. For some reason, the dates don’t seem to be importing. I’ve tired a few
   different formats including Month Day, Year and year-month-day but it doesn’t
   seem to have any impact. Is there any particular format I need to use? I’ll continue
   investigating.

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 *  Plugin Author [WP All Import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpallimport/)
 * (@wpallimport)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-and-syntax/#post-14872067)
 * Hey [@afostre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afostre/),
 * > Is there any particular format I need to use?
 * Any format supported by PHP’s strtotime function should work: [https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php).
 * If that doesn’t help, please replicate your import on a sandbox site at [http://www.wpallimport.com/debug/](http://www.wpallimport.com/debug/)(
   you can install WP Job Manager there), then open a support request at [http://www.wpallimport.com/support/](http://www.wpallimport.com/support/)
   with the sandbox site URL and a brief description of the issue. We’ll have to
   run tests with your import to figure out why the dates aren’t importing as expected.
 *  Thread Starter [afostre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afostre/)
 * (@afostre)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-and-syntax/#post-14879825)
 * Thank you, I was able to replicate the bug and demonstrate that imports using
   the WP Job Manager extension for Application Deadlines is not functioning properly
   with imports, despite using the _job_deadline tag.
 * However, I’m still experiencing problems with the Expires tag for WP Job Manager,
   which means there is a conflict on my build (perhaps the theme or another plugin
   such as WPJM Custom Fields).
 * I’ll report my findings and solutions here.
 *  Thread Starter [afostre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afostre/)
 * (@afostre)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-and-syntax/#post-14883194)
 * Hi [@wpallimport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpallimport/)
 * I was able to identify the source of the problem. The metatag used for the Application
   Deadline field was being shown as “_job_deadline” within my inspector, but it
   is actually _application_deadline. The tool known as WP Job Manager Custom Fields
   was used to collect the data – I’ll be reporting this bug to them.
 * I was also having problems with the Listing Expiration date, the default tag 
   is _job_expires but my site has it changed to _expiration_date. This might be
   changed by WPJM CF, or by the theme itself.
 * Thanks for your help!

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-and-syntax/#post-14883194)
 * Status: resolved