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more on WordPress dates

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

I got sick of the annoying date display bug, and so dug through the default theme files looking for specific references to date formats. And there were many …

I found that, instead of using the WordPress the_date() function, there were many calls to the_time('l, F jS, Y'), which forces a specific date format. If you replace instances of the_time('l, F jS, Y') with the_date(), your date and time format set in the Options panel will work as expected.

How hard was that? Not very. How easy would it be to be modified in the default template?

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wordpress dates

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

I’m a bit peeved that even in WordPress 2.1, they haven’t fixed a very long-standing bug: all templates (especially the default one) should respect the user’s date format. It seems that moderators on the forums see this as a non-issue, and zealously close (or ignore, if such a passive thing can be done zealously) any discussion on the topic, as has happened here. I don’t need or want to edit PHP to make this work; it’s supposed to work.

Today’s date is 28 Jan 02007. I want you to see it that way. WordPress doesn’t.

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