Title: Date format
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Date format

 *  [davidzupec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidzupec/)
 * (@davidzupec)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-39/)
 * Does anybody know how I could go about displaying the year in my WordPress blog
   posts like this: TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN
 * Instead of the usual: 2014
 * Thank you!

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 *  [Amanda Rush](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arush/)
 * (@arush)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-39/#post-4734442)
 * Hi,
 * WordPress handles date and time display by relying on Php’s date/time documentation,
   and so while I won’t say it’s not possible, I don’t think there’s anything in
   that documentation that allows for the display of dates in letters instead of
   numbers. You can check the date/time documentation page that’s linked from the
   date/time section in settings/general of your WordPress dashboard.
 *  Thread Starter [davidzupec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidzupec/)
 * (@davidzupec)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-39/#post-4734504)
 * Hi Amanda, yeah I know I was afraid of that. I had looked at the codex and nothing
   was in there about the format that I want. Thank you for your help.
 *  [Dave Naylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpranger/)
 * (@wpranger)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-39/#post-4734511)
 * I played around with this and found [this StackOverflow post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/277569/is-there-an-easy-way-to-convert-a-number-to-a-word-in-php).
   If you take the functions from the top answer and paste them into your theme’s
   functions.php file and then use this in your template:
 * `<?php echo strtoupper(convertNumber(get_the_date('Y'))); ?>`
 * For 2014 you end up with TWO THOUSAND AND FOURTEEN.
 * It’s a bit of cracking a nut with a sledge hammer but I have it working on my
   test site. You could use it in conjunction with another the_date() string to 
   form the output you require.
 *  Thread Starter [davidzupec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidzupec/)
 * (@davidzupec)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-39/#post-4734514)
 * Hi WPRanger, great thank you! I’ll give this a shot. When I designed my clients
   site I wanted to do something different with the post year, but I didn’t think
   this format would end up being complicated : )

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