Title: Remove the time information
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Remove the time information

 *  Resolved [LeonWeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leonweb/)
 * (@leonweb)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-time-information/)
 * Hello,
    Could you help me, please?
 * I see a not very good snippet, when i type some of my article’s name in Google’s
   Search.
    Because I see a date + **TIME** + short text of my article, in the snippet
   in Google’s Search Results. How can I remove the “**time information**“, from
   snippet in Google’s Search Results? I think it is in the post-meta.php file, 
   but I’m not sure…
 * _ <span class=”entry-date”><i class=”fa fa-clock-o”></i><abbr class=”published”
   title=”<?php echo esc\_attr( get\_the\_date( ‘c’ ) ); ?>”><?php echo the\_time(
   get\_option( ‘date\_format’ ) ); ?></abbr></span>
    <span class=”meta-no-display”
   >” rel=”bookmark”><?php echo the\_title\_attribute(); ?>
   </span><?php echo $modtime;?
   >_
 * Hope you understand my bad english…

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 *  Theme Author [Richie KS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rkcorp/)
 * (@rkcorp)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-time-information/#post-5954166)
 * its the microdata date for search engine. the search query in google are not 
   dependable, sometime it show the date stamp sometime not, depend on user query.
 * search for wp plugin that remove datestamp for google index listing. forgot the
   plugin name already.
 *  Thread Starter [LeonWeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leonweb/)
 * (@leonweb)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-time-information/#post-5954202)
 * Thank you!
    I’ll try to find it.
 * But there is still a question…
    How I can edit the post-meta.php for this: I 
   need to disable pop-up text (with time information) when mouse hovers under title
   on post-entry article.. I’m trying to find a solution somewhere here:
 * _<?php
    $getmodtime = get\_the\_modified\_time(); if( !$getmodtime ) { $modtime
   = ‘<span class=”date updated meta-no-display”>’. get\_the\_time(‘c’) . ‘</span
   >’; } else { $modtime = ‘<span class=”date updated meta-no-display”>’. get\_the\
   _modified\_time(‘c’) . ‘</span>’; } ?> <span class=”entry-date”><i class=”fa 
   fa-clock-o”></i><abbr class=”published” title=”<?php echo esc\_attr( get\_the\
   _date( ‘c’ ) ); ?>”><?php echo the\_time( get\_option( ‘date\_format’ ) ); ?>
   </abbr></span> <span class=”meta-no-display”>” rel=”bookmark”><?php echo the\
   _title\_attribute(); ?></span><?php echo $modtime; ?>
 *  Theme Author [Richie KS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rkcorp/)
 * (@rkcorp)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-time-information/#post-5954203)
 * `<abbr class="published" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ); ?
   >"><?php echo the_time( get_option( 'date_format' ) ); ?></abbr>`
 * replace ‘abbr’ to ‘span’
 *  Thread Starter [LeonWeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leonweb/)
 * (@leonweb)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-time-information/#post-5954206)
 * Super! Thanks!
 * And last question about post-meta.php:
    If i need this information (date + category)
   only main page (post-meta-home) And I completely remove a file “post-meta.php”
   it can break my site? It can also cause a lot of error? Or it’s not important
   for this?
 *  Theme Author [Richie KS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rkcorp/)
 * (@rkcorp)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-time-information/#post-5954210)
 * no need to remove or delete it, just rename it to post-meta2.php
    but i would
   suggest keep it but use css to hide some element for google snippet microdata
   pass.
 * something like
 * #custom span.post-author { display:none; }
 * check the span class for each post meta field.
 *  Thread Starter [LeonWeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leonweb/)
 * (@leonweb)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-time-information/#post-5954211)
 * I see. Thank you very much for the advice!!!

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 * Last reply from: [LeonWeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leonweb/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-time-information/#post-5954211)
 * Status: resolved