Reply To: Must update post twice to get values passed

• John Huebner

• October 28, 2015 at 12:09 pm

the update_value filter runs before the value is saved so in your function you are attempting to get a value that does not exist yet. The value is passed to your function in $value but you aren’t using it, is there a reason for this?

Try the following. You may need to do some additional stuff, not sure. The value stored by acf for dates is YYYYMMDD

unction my_acf_update_value( $value, $post_id, $field ) {
	
	$date = strtotime($value);
	$formatted_date = date('d F Y', $date);