Custom date format using post_date

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Formatting_Date_and_Time

That seems to work only with the_date() and the_time(), which I can’t use outside the Loop. But I’ve found a solution:

mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date);

Hi koyder, thanks for sharing!

But where do you exactly put mysql2date(‘j M Y’, $post->post_date); to make it work properly? I do an echo on post_date to show the date but when I place mysql2date(‘j M Y’, $post->post_date); into my code, it doesn’t work…

Thanks a lot for your help!

Hi there,

I am trying to do exactly the same thing but it does not seem to work.

My code:

echo "<li><a href=\"".get_permalink()."\">$post_title</a> - $post->post_date; ?></li>";

What I get:

“The title” – 2008-10-24 10:22:18

What I want:

“The title” – October 24, 2008

If I change the code to:

echo "<li><a href=\"".get_permalink()."\">$post_title</a> - mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date);</li>";

I get:

“The title” – mysql2date(‘j M Y’, 2008-10-24 10:22:18);

Thanks in advance for the help

you haven’t wrapped the code, it’s just plain text at the moment

mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date);

see?

try:

. mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date) .

I’m having the same problem…

I’m trying to output:

<li><a>Title</a> April 12, 2010</li>

But when I use the code in neologan’s example above I get:

<li><a>Title</a> </li>

Here’s my code:

'<li><a href="' . get_permalink($post["ID"]) . '" title="Read more of '.$post["post_title"].'" >' . $post["post_title"].'</a> '.$post["post_date"].' </li> '

Sorry, missed out the code including neologan’s exmaple in my post above. The code including neologan’s example looks like this:

'<li><a href="' . get_permalink($post["ID"]) . '" title="Read more of '.$post["post_title"].'" >' . $post["post_title"].'</a> '. mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date) .' </li> '

But outputs:

<li><a>Title</a> </li>

I’m trying to get:

<li><a>Title</a> April 12, 2010</li>

try this:

. mysql2date(‘M j Y’, $post[“post_date”]) .

@ian92484

That works perfectly! Thanks.