Title: Date format
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Date format

 *  [premek.v](https://wordpress.org/support/users/premekv/)
 * (@premekv)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-12/)
 * Hi, great plugin, thank you.
 * One little thing: Date should respect formatting options set globally for wordpress…
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-recent-posts-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-recent-posts-widget/)

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 *  [costidima](https://wordpress.org/support/users/costidima/)
 * (@costidima)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-12/#post-3395040)
 * This can be easily done by changing **<?php the_time(“j M Y”); ?>**
    to **<?php
   the_time(get_option(‘date_format’)); ?>**

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