Format Dates and Times

Long Date Format=mmmm d, yyyy · Short Date Format=mdyy · Day Date Format=ddd, mmm d, yyyy · Time Format=hh:mm:ss AMPM · July 12, 2007 · 71207 · Thu, Jul 12, 2007

Customizing the Time and Date Format Certain WordPress tag functions are used to display or return date and time information; the_date() and

date format date month In the load script, you use the date() function to convert the numerical date into a date format Because you do not provide a specified format as

json format Producing Normal Date Formats for a Locale Use createDateInstance to produce the normal date format for that country There are other static factory methods