Reply To: Date format is wrong

• igloobob

• September 2, 2014 at 7:46 pm

rockeypjb thanks for that direction above. I have selected an ACF date though when uploading an article in the post admin so shouldn’t it then print in the format I have selected in the display settings?

Using your suggestion above if I enter that as is without changing the filedname I see it prints the current date. I add in my own field name and it stops printing the page at that point (I’ve changed the date format).

<?php $date = new DateTime(get_field(‘published_on’));
echo $date->format(‘d/m/Y’); ?>

What I ideally want is something like the below (but this doesn’t work)

<span>Published on:</span>
<?php $published_on = get_field(‘published_on’);
if ($published_on) {
echo $published_on->format(‘d/m/Y’);
} else {
echo ‘Not known’;
} ?>

Is there something simple I’m doing wrong here?