Title: Date error / too few arguments
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Date error / too few arguments

 *  [juksuus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juksuus/)
 * (@juksuus)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-error-too-few-arguments/)
 * On my posts page in each post is coming suddenly the following error message 
   on the place of the date (I guess the problem is with date code):
 * on line 218 Warning: sprintf(): Too few arguments in /public_html/wp-content/
   themes/oxygen/library/functions/shortcodes.php
 * and in line 218 is:
    `$published = '<abbr class="published" title="' . sprintf(
   get_the_time( esc_attr__( 'l, F jS, Y, g:i a', 'hybrid-core' ) ) ) . '">' . sprintf(
   get_the_time( $attr['format'] ) ) . '</abbr>';`
 * The whole part of that code there is:
 *     ```
       function hybrid_entry_published_shortcode( $attr ) {
       	$attr = shortcode_atts( array( 'before' => '', 'after' => '', 'format' => get_option( 'date_format' ) ), $attr );
   
       	$published = '<abbr class="published" title="' . sprintf( get_the_time( esc_attr__( 'l, F jS, Y, g:i a', 'hybrid-core' ) ) ) . '">' . sprintf( get_the_time( $attr['format'] ) ) . '</abbr>';
       	return $attr['before'] . $published . $attr['after'];
       }
       ```
   
 * What I should change there? Thank you for all advices!

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-error-too-few-arguments/)
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