Mar 09, 2010
Getting the_time() to work
So someone was curious about how to get the_time to work in WordPress. Here’s an example (taken from this theme I customized) on how to use the_time:
This is the basic way to show the month, day and year like shown in my posts:
the_time('F j, Y');
However if you want to do something with the actual timestamp (such as showing time you posted), you can use this:
the_time('g:i a');
Refer to the chart below to know what character to use in to customize the display (You’d just change the F j, Y in the_time(‘F j, Y) ).
| Day of month | ||
| d | Numeric, with leading zeros | 01–31 |
| j | Numeric, without leading zeros | 1–31 |
| S | English ordinal suffix, use after j | st, nd, rd or th |
| Weekday | ||
| l | Full name (lowercase ‘L’) | Sunday – Saturday |
| D | Three letter name | Mon – Sun |
| Month | ||
| m | Numeric, with leading zeros | 01–12 |
| n | Numeric, without leading zeros | 1–12 |
| F | Textual full | January – December |
| M | Textual three letters | Jan – Dec |
| Year | ||
| Y | Numeric, 4 digits | Eg., 1999, 2003 |
| y | Numeric, 2 digits | Eg., 99, 03 |
| Time | ||
| g | Hour, 12-hour, without leading zeros | 1–12 |
| h | Hour, 12-hour, with leading zeros | 01–12 |
| a | Lowercase | am, pm |
| A | Uppercase | AM, PM |
| G | Hour, 24-hour, without leading zeros | 0-23 |
| H | Hour, 24-hour, with leading zeros | 00-23 |
| i | Minutes, with leading zeros | 00-59 |
| s | Seconds, with leading zeros | 00-59 |
| T | Timezone abbreviation | Eg., EST, MDT … |
| Full Date/Time | ||
| c | ISO 8601 | 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00 |
| r | RFC 2822 | Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200 |
