Title: Change date format
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Change date format

 *  Resolved [Bari007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bari007/)
 * (@bari007)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-date-format-33/)
 * Hi.
 * I use template paperbox (which is currently not supported – author is not responding)
   and I want to customize date format in posts. It seems like the theme uses custom
   date format and translations, because I can’t change date format using default
   settings in WP admin. And I want to translate the date (names of months) to my
   local language.
 * But I am not able to find the file where is the translation. Is it somehow possible
   to find out where are stored names of months in my template? I tried to find 
   it using
    `grep -H -r "July" /var/www/html/selfici.com/wp-content/themes/paperbox/`(
   I have my website on linux VPS) but I was not successful. I also tried to find
   it using Adminer directly in my database but I was not sucessful as well. So 
   it looks like it is defined nowhere, but it has to be somewhere 🙂
 * So is there any way how to find names of months and translate it directly to 
   my local language?
 * My website is [https://www.selfici.com/cs/](https://www.selfici.com/cs/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Bari007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bari007/)
 * (@bari007)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-date-format-33/#post-7404665)
 * No answer… So maybe let’s turn it around – if the theme uses own date format,
   how to change to use default WordPress date format? Where can I fix this and 
   enforce using WordPress format? When I open template-tags.php in my theme folder,
   I see
 *     ```
       <span class="date">
       			<a href="<?php echo get_day_link(get_post_time('Y'), get_post_time('m'), get_post_time('j')); ?>">
       				<?php the_time('j. F Y') ?>
       			</a>
       ```
   
 * Thanks for any help.
 *  Thread Starter [Bari007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bari007/)
 * (@bari007)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-date-format-33/#post-7404679)
 * I found the problem. It is a bug in Czech translation, it is reported and should
   be solved [http://www.separatista.net/forum/tema/preklep-v-nazvu-mesice-cervnaec](http://www.separatista.net/forum/tema/preklep-v-nazvu-mesice-cervnaec)
 *  [pavelevap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pavelevap/)
 * (@pavelevap)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-date-format-33/#post-7404680)
 * Hi,
 * problem is not in translation, but directly in WP core. I reported it here: [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36790](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36790)

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 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-date-format-33/#post-7404680)
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