Title: Cannot Change Date Format
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cannot Change Date Format

 *  Resolved [J Marlow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j-marlow/)
 * (@j-marlow)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-change-date-format/)
 * Regardless of changes made in admin settings, the date format remains the same,
   all numbers, starting with the day–so my posts look like they’re from february.
   Near as I can tell, functions.php controls the date with this code–but I see 
   nothing wrong here.
 * $defaults = array(‘depth’ => 0, ‘show_date’ => ”, ‘date_format’ => get_option(‘
   date_format’),
 * Site is [http://fitstorm.blog/](http://fitstorm.blog/)
 * Thanks for any help!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-change-date-format/#post-1656797)
 * The displayed date on your site is governed by the [the_time](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_time)
   and/or [the_date](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_date) tags
   in the theme’s templates files. So you need to edit your theme’s files.
 *  Thread Starter [J Marlow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j-marlow/)
 * (@j-marlow)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-change-date-format/#post-1656811)
 * Thanks esmi. I know http, not much css (yet). Searching all transblack theme 
   files, I see “the_date” only once, and that’s in archives.php
 * I changed d-m-y to m-d-y, but it makes no difference; posts still show (for example)
   03-09-2010 when I want them to read September 3, 2010.
 * Any suggestions for the css-impaired?
 * Thanks again.
 *  Thread Starter [J Marlow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j-marlow/)
 * (@j-marlow)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-change-date-format/#post-1656815)
 * Okay, making progress by changing d-m-Y to m-d-Y everywhere I find it. Still 
   doesn’t spell out the month, though. Working it here. Also this in attachments.
   php:
 * And I’m a little baffled by one ref in attachments.php which says on <?php the_time(‘
   l, F jS, Y’) ?> at <?php the_time() ?>.
 * Thanks for the pointer!
 *  Thread Starter [J Marlow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j-marlow/)
 * (@j-marlow)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-change-date-format/#post-1656816)
 * Changed everything I could find to l, F j, Y
 * Does the trick, thanks!
 * JM

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-change-date-format/#post-1656816)
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