Title: Date format
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Date format

 *  [costidima](https://wordpress.org/support/users/costidima/)
 * (@costidima)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-16/)
 * Great plugin but the date format is static, it should be changed to match the
   date format from general settings.
 * 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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