Title: Date Format on custom fields
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Date Format on custom fields

 *  Resolved [Alexcsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexcsb/)
 * (@alexcsb)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-on-custom-fields/)
 * I have found that date formats have to be input in a particular way for posts
   to show correctly. The way this plugin is used is for modulating event type posts.
   Where the date of the entry needs to be put in it must be done this way: 2014-
   03-15.
 * Is there a way that this could be a format you could choose for yourself, i.e.
   in the UK we would use either 15/03/2014 or 15/03/2014. I appreciate the US format
   would be 03-15-2014, so the option for all users would be to choose format.
 * Additionally some notes somewhere could identify how date format should be entered
   as I had to work this out for myself.
 * I think a variable option would be massively beneficial to anyone wishing to 
   use a different format.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-on-custom-fields/#post-4706691)
 * Custom Post Type UI doesn’t do anything regarding handling of dates, so whatever
   you’re looking at for this is going to be WordPress Core.
 * All we do is handle the registration of the post type or taxonomy that you’re
   wanting.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-on-custom-fields/#post-4706691)
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