Title: Date range formatting
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Date range formatting

 *  Resolved [TGolas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tgolas/)
 * (@tgolas)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-range-formatting/)
 * Hi Jeroen,
 * This is such a small thing, but something my client has requested, and the answer
   is not obvious to me. I am listing upcoming productions using this shortcode:[
   wpt_productions]{{thumbnail|permalink}}<h3>{{title|permalink}}</h3><p>_{{dates}}_{{
   excerpt}}</p>[/wpt_productions]
 * The {{dates}} output shows “September 1, 2015 to October 20, 2015”. My client
   is asking me to change “to” to “-” so that the date range reads “September 1,
   2015 – October 20, 2015”. How can I do this?
 * Thanks again for your help and a really nice plugin.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/theatre/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/theatre/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeroen Schmit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slimndap/)
 * (@slimndap)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-range-formatting/#post-6488621)
 * Here is a quick hack to accomplish this.
 * Add the following code to the functions.php of your theme:
 *     ```
       function wpt_change_production_dates_to($translated_text, $text, $domain) {
       	if ('wp_theatre' == $domain && 'to' == $text) {
       		$translated_text = '-';
       	}
       	return $translated_text;
       }
       add_filter( 'gettext', 'wpt_change_production_dates_to', 20, 3 );
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [TGolas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tgolas/)
 * (@tgolas)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-range-formatting/#post-6488623)
 * Thank you, Jeroen.

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 * Last reply from: [TGolas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tgolas/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-range-formatting/#post-6488623)
 * Status: resolved