Title: setting the date on posts
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# setting the date on posts

 *  [cindysday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cindysday/)
 * (@cindysday)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-the-date-on-posts/)
 * I need to know where and how I change the published x amount of ours ago to the
   date, when I make a post.
    Please help, Thank you

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 *  [wiesmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wiesmann/)
 * (@wiesmann)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-the-date-on-posts/#post-5874817)
 * You need to modify the function sixteen_posted_on() in the file template-tags.
   php.
 * You could probably write something like
 *  $time_string = the_time(‘l, F jS, Y’);
 * just before
 * printf( __( ‘<span class=”posted-on”>Published %1$s</span><span class=”byline”
   > by %2$s</span>’, ‘sixteen’ ),
 * For more information about date formats: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time](http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time)

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