Title: post_modifies output
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# post_modifies output

 *  [v2gbr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/v2gbr/)
 * (@v2gbr)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_modifies-output/)
 * Hello,
 * If you look on this page [http://www.fleetwood-fishing-industry.co.uk/latest-updates/](http://www.fleetwood-fishing-industry.co.uk/latest-updates/)
   you will see the date in bold like so, 2008-11-29 11:18:27
 * How can i format the date so it shows like, 29 November 2008
 * At the moment the phph i use is, `<? print mysql_result($result,$start,"post_modified");?
   >`
 * It just does not look very tidy as it is.
 * Thanks in advance.
    Alan Duggan

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_modifies-output/#post-913281)
 * Have you looked at using one of the [template tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags)
   such as [the_date()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_date), or [the_time()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_time)
   or [the_modified_time](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_modified_time)?
 * Also see:
    [Formatting_Date_and_Time](http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time)
 *  Thread Starter [v2gbr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/v2gbr/)
 * (@v2gbr)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_modifies-output/#post-913294)
 * The problem is its not the modified time of that specific post. Its the modified
   time of the top entry in the list on the page.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_modifies-output/#post-913309)
 * If using a custom [loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop) please review [http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/19/paging-and-custom-wordpress-loops/](http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/19/paging-and-custom-wordpress-loops/)
 *  Thread Starter [v2gbr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/v2gbr/)
 * (@v2gbr)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_modifies-output/#post-913316)
 * i was actually using a query of my own
 * $query=”select * from wp_posts where post_date < post_modified and post_title
   like ‘%M.%’ and post_status like ‘%publish%’ order by post_modified DESC”;
 *  Thread Starter [v2gbr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/v2gbr/)
 * (@v2gbr)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_modifies-output/#post-913333)
 * Is there a way to modify the output of post_modified in this string <? print 
   mysql_result($result,$start,”**post_modified**“); ?> ?

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