Title: Dates in WordPress format?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Dates in WordPress format?

 *  [lacike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lacike/)
 * (@lacike)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dates-in-wordpress-format/)
 * Would it be possible to format date using wordpress date format?
 * E.g.
    [span itemprop=startDate datetime=05/15/2015]05/15/2015[span] should be(
   with d.m.Y format): [span itemprop=startDate datetime=05/15/2015]15.5.2015[span]
 * Thanks!
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 *  [Zenion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zenion/)
 * (@zenion)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dates-in-wordpress-format/#post-6120839)
 * You need to edit file function.php inside plugin folder; at line 181 you can 
   find the code creating that string.
    Note that [DateTime](http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php)
   class i’m using requires PHP 5.2.0 or later. Just change this:
 *     ```
       $event .= ' <div class="snippet-data-img"> <span itemprop="startDate" datetime="'.$event_start_date.'T00:00-00:00">'.$event_start_date.'</span></div><div class="snippet-clear"></div>';
       ```
   
 * into this:
 *     ```
       $myStartDate = DateTime::createFromFormat('m/d/Y', $event_start_date);
       $my_event_start_date = $myStartDate->format('d/m/Y');
       $event .= ' <div class="snippet-data-img"> <span itemprop="startDate" datetime="'.$event_start_date.'T00:00-00:00">'.$my_event_start_date.'</span></div><div class="snippet-clear"></div>';
       ```
   
 * You can change EndDate too editing relative variables.
 *  Thread Starter [lacike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lacike/)
 * (@lacike)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dates-in-wordpress-format/#post-6120841)
 * Thanks Zenion, that’s what I need and that’s what I was going to modify.
 * I was hoping to have this in next version. I don’t like modification of plugins,
   because the plugin cannot be automatically updated.. However, in this case it
   seems the plugin is about to be abandoned by the author.
 *  [Senuke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cavor/)
 * (@cavor)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dates-in-wordpress-format/#post-6120984)
 * Thank you very much Zenion !
 *  [Senuke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cavor/)
 * (@cavor)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dates-in-wordpress-format/#post-6120986)
 * mmm, there is a little problem : Google structured data doesn’t read correctly
   the date, because it reverse day and month. I tried to modify:
    $myStartDate 
   = DateTime::createFromFormat(‘m/d/Y’, $event_start_date); with: $myStartDate 
   = DateTime::createFromFormat(‘d/m/Y’, $event_start_date); but that’s doesn’t 
   work. Do you have any solution ?

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dates-in-wordpress-format/#post-6120986)
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