{"id":50989,"date":"2015-07-24T03:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T07:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=50989"},"modified":"2016-02-24T02:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T07:38:00","slug":"drupal-7-x-how-to-change-date-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/drupal-7-x-how-to-change-date-format.html","title":{"rendered":"Drupal 7.x. How to change date format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<p>This tutorial shows how to change date format in Drupal 7.x.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nZZRRdf6dsg?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">Drupal 7.x. How to change date format<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>  To manage date formats in Drupal, you need to manage both format types and formats themselves in the Regional and Language settings.<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Navigate to <strong>Admin > Configuration > Regional and Language > Date and Time<\/strong> and click on the <strong>Formats<\/strong> tab:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-1-300x150.png\" alt=\"Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-50990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-1-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-1.png 915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>You can create a new date\/time format by clicking on the <strong>Add format<\/strong> button on the top left using the standard <a href=\"http:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/function.date.php\" target=\"_blank\">PHP date\/time formatting tokens<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-2-300x123.png\" alt=\"Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-50991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-2-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-2-150x62.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-2.png 909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve created your new format, you can assign that to a format type by clicking on the <strong>Types<\/strong> tab (admin\/config\/regional\/date-time) or you can use format from the list:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-3_03.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-3_03-300x139.png\" alt=\"Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-3_03\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-50992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-3_03-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-3_03-150x70.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Drupal._How_to_change_date_format-3_03.png 909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nZZRRdf6dsg?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">Drupal 7.x. How to change date format<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial shows how to change date format in Drupal 7.x.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":50994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[723],"tags":[843,593,804],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}