Title: HTML5 time pubdate format?
Last modified: August 21, 2016
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# HTML5 time pubdate format?
* Resolved [christianready](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christianready/)
* (@christianready)
* [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-time-pubdate-format/)
* I am trying to format my Tweets as proper HTML5 `` elements, e.g.:
* ```
My tweet goes here
```
* Does anyone know how would I get the date and time of the tweet into that ISO
format for the datetime attribute? Thanks!
* [http://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/)
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* Plugin Author [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
* (@timwhitlock)
* [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-time-pubdate-format/#post-4090435)
* See the `latest_tweets_render_date` filter hook – example in the [Other Notes tab](http://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/other_notes/).
* Thread Starter [christianready](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christianready/)
* (@christianready)
* [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-time-pubdate-format/#post-4090449)
* Thanks. i was looking at that yesterday and I thought I was doing this correctly,
but I cannot seem to get a value for the datetime attribute to render. I basically
took your example and added an additional filter:
* ```
add_filter('latest_tweets_render_date', function( $created_at ){
$datetime = DateTime::createFromFormat('D M d H:i:s O Y', $created_at );
return $datetimeX->format('Y-M-d H:i:s');
}, 10 , 1 );
add_filter('latest_tweets_render_date', function( $created_at ){
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('D M d H:i:s O Y', $created_at );
return $date->format('d M h:ia');
}, 10 , 1 );
add_filter('latest_tweets_render_text', function( $text ){
return $text; // <- will use default
}, 10 , 1 );
add_filter('latest_tweets_render_tweet', function( $html, $date, $datetimeX, $link, array $tweet ){
$pic = $tweet['user']['profile_image_url_https'];
return '
'.$html.'
';
}, 10, 4 );
add_filter('latest_tweets_render_after', function(){
return '';
}, 10, 0 );
```
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* To be on the safe side, I even called the value “datetimeX” in case “datetime”
was a reserved word in PHP. The resulting
My tweet goes here
```
* Does anyone know how would I get the date and time of the tweet into that ISO
format for the datetime attribute? Thanks!
* [http://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/)
Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
* Plugin Author [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
* (@timwhitlock)
* [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-time-pubdate-format/#post-4090435)
* See the `latest_tweets_render_date` filter hook – example in the [Other Notes tab](http://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/other_notes/).
* Thread Starter [christianready](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christianready/)
* (@christianready)
* [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-time-pubdate-format/#post-4090449)
* Thanks. i was looking at that yesterday and I thought I was doing this correctly,
but I cannot seem to get a value for the datetime attribute to render. I basically
took your example and added an additional filter:
* ```
add_filter('latest_tweets_render_date', function( $created_at ){
$datetime = DateTime::createFromFormat('D M d H:i:s O Y', $created_at );
return $datetimeX->format('Y-M-d H:i:s');
}, 10 , 1 );
add_filter('latest_tweets_render_date', function( $created_at ){
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('D M d H:i:s O Y', $created_at );
return $date->format('d M h:ia');
}, 10 , 1 );
add_filter('latest_tweets_render_text', function( $text ){
return $text; // <- will use default
}, 10 , 1 );
add_filter('latest_tweets_render_tweet', function( $html, $date, $datetimeX, $link, array $tweet ){
$pic = $tweet['user']['profile_image_url_https'];
return '