Title: Setting up Date format
Last modified: December 6, 2016

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# Setting up Date format

 *  [mykopopov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykopopov/)
 * (@mykopopov)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-date-format/)
 * How can I set up date format in Baskerville theme?
    Setting it in “Settings” 
   menu doesn’t work for me. Tnx!

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 *  Thread Starter [mykopopov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykopopov/)
 * (@mykopopov)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-date-format/#post-8519646)
 * I mean how can Iset up the post date on the main page, on the single post page
   changes I made in “Settings” works fine.
 *  [ingx2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ingx2/)
 * (@ingx2)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-date-format/#post-8801399)
 * I am having the same problem.
    I have set my date format in my settings to be
   of the format February 14, 2017, and thats correct in my single post page. However
   in my main page its 2017/02/13. Why are they different??
 *  [David Stingl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/berlindave/)
 * (@berlindave)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-date-format/#post-8905033)
 * First of all: I really love Baskerville!
 * But this date format problem is a little drop of bitterness. Responsible for 
   this deficiency ist since Version 1.16 the function `baskerville_meta()` in the
   functions.php.
 * In my opinion there would be two possible solutions:
    1. Making the call of `the_time( 'Y/m/d' );` translatable. Unfortunately that seems
       to be not so easy …
    2. Declare the function `baskerville_meta()` in the functions.php conditionally:
    3.     ```
           if ( ! function_exists( 'baskerville_meta' ) ) {
               function baskerville_meta() {
                   […]
               }
           }
           ```
       
    4. Then you can overwirite this function in a child theme and define your own date
       format for the post meta.
 * This would be great to have in Version 1.20!!!

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 * Last reply from: [David Stingl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/berlindave/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-date-format/#post-8905033)
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