Date Formatting

The date format displayed on the blog pages can be modified through the use of a coding system. The code for the desired format is entered on the Theme Settings page of the Blog Manager.

Code Values

Character	Meaning
a	"am" or "pm"
A	"AM" or "PM"
d	day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros; i.e. "01" to "31"
j	day of the month without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "31"
D	day of the week, textual, 3 letters; i.e. "Fri"
l (lowercase 'L')	day of the week, textual, long; i.e. "Friday"
g	hour, 12-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "12"
G	hour, 24-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. "0" to "23"
h	hour, 12-hour format; i.e. "01" to "12"
H	hour, 24-hour format; i.e. "00" to "23"
i	minutes; i.e. "00" to "59"
s	seconds; i.e. "00" to "59"
m	month; i.e. "01" to "12"
n	month without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "12"
M	month, textual, 3 letters; i.e. "Jan"
F	month, textual, long; i.e. "January"
t	number of days in the given month; i.e. "28" to "31"
Y	year, 4 digits; i.e. "1999"
y	year, 2 digits; i.e. "99"
r	RFC 822 formatted date; i.e. "Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200"
B	Swatch Internet time
S	English ordinal suffix, textual, 2 characters; i.e. "th", "nd"
T	Timezone setting of this machine; i.e. "MDT"
U	seconds since the epoch
w	day of the week, numeric, i.e. "0" (Sunday) to "6" (Saturday)
z	day of the year; i.e. "0" to "365"
Z	timezone offset in seconds (i.e. "-43200" to "43200"). The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive.
	Unrecognized characters in the format string will be printed as-is.

Examples

F j, Y, g:i a                 = March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm
m.d.y                         = 03.10.01
j, g, Y                       = 10, 3, 2001
Ymd                           = 20010310
\i\t \i\s \t\h\e jS \d\a\y.   = It is the 10th day.
D M j G:i:s T Y               = Sat Mar 10 15:16:08 MST 2001
H:m:s \m \i\s\ \m\o\n\t\h     = 17:03:17 m is month
H:i:s                         = 17:16:17