Title: Human readable date format Last modified: January 31, 2022 --- # Human readable date format * Resolved [gregor84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregor84/) * (@gregor84) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/human-readable-date-format/) * Hi Guys. First of all, your plugin is very good. * I have a little problem with date format. In the admin, I can setup date format, but that only controls the “Standard datepicker” layout. When I choose the “Human readable” layout, then date format is not good for me. * Example date format on the site: 1. February 2022 * I need to this format: 2022 February 1. * Do you have solution? 🙂 If you don’t have any official solution, you can tell me, where can I hack these in the plugin directory? 🙂 * Best regards, Zsolt Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Plugin Author [e4jvikwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/e4jvikwp/) * (@e4jvikwp) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/human-readable-date-format/#post-15314671) * Hi Zsolt, * Thanks for contacting us. We understand what you’re saying, but as you’ve noticed, the date format settings do not affect the way the dates are “expressed” in the“ Human Readable” layout of the search form widget. * As the name of the layout suggests, that’s the standard (ISO) way of representing a date as a string. However, if you would like to format the date-string representation in a different way, there’s no need to “hack” this onto the source code, you can simply override the widget’s layout file by cloning its original template file default.php and by editing that source code. This way, by installing a future update you will not lose your modifications. Overrides are important for this reason. * We have a technical documentation available on our website that explains in the details how to locate and clone a template file of a View (shortcode) or a Widget. We invite you to read that documentation, but the file you want to clone and override is the following: * /wp-content/plugins/vikbooking/modules/mod_vikbooking_horizontalsearch/tmpl/default. php * By copying that file default.php onto the override directory, you will be able to work on an override-copy of the file without touching the core file source code. In this case, the override directory will be the following (please always refer to our updated technical documentation for the exact directories): * /wp-content/uploads/vikbooking/overrides/modules/mod_vikbooking_horizontalsearch/ default.php * If the above file existed, VikBooking would read your override template file rather than the original source file. * P.S. the override template file should be then selected from the “Layout” parameter of the widget in order for it to be able to use it properly. * We hope this helps! * Best regards, The VikWP Team * Thread Starter [gregor84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregor84/) * (@gregor84) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/human-readable-date-format/#post-15378109) * Oh, I didn’t see this answer. Thank you for your help. 🙂 It’s perfect answer. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Human readable date format’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/vikbooking/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1855707) * [VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS](https://wordpress.org/plugins/vikbooking/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/vikbooking/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/vikbooking/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/vikbooking/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/vikbooking/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/vikbooking/reviews/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [gregor84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregor84/) * Last activity: [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/human-readable-date-format/#post-15378109) * Status: resolved