This article gives idea about two types of date.
THE FIRST
a) date
if you want to show todays date you can use this format
The symbol here
Y: full year (2020)
y: short form of year (20)
m: numerical form of month (7)
M: Alphabetical form of Month (July)
d: date (16)
D: short form of day (Thu)
l: Full form of Day (Thursday)
b) Time
samewse in date() you can echo time like date(h:i:s a)
this gives the hour, minute and second along with am and pm
H: 24 hour format
h: 12 hour format
i: minute (00 to 59)
s: second (00 to 59)
a: shows am or pm
THE SECOND
date of the post
- the_date()
This will give the Date in the F j, Y format ie. JULY 16, 2020
you can also do echo get_the_date(); for this
- DATE FORMAT
- the_date() gives JULY 16, 2020 by default
- echo get_the_date( l, S M Y ) gives Thursday, 16th July 2020.
- the_time( ‘g:i a’ ) gives output of 7:30 am
- echo get_the_time( ‘G:i’ ) give 24 hur format that is 23:20
- the_time( ‘g:i a, D, j F y’ )gives 2:03 pm, Thu, 16 July 20