Reply To: Date output

• Elliot

• July 9, 2013 at 10:00 am

Hi @madsynn

You can format the date value into any format you with thanks to the great PHP date / time functions.

I have written up some code here:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/field-types/date-picker/

And have extended it a little bit for you below:

All you need to do is change the format_out and you can do that by finding the format string here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

<?php 

/*
*  Create PHP DateTime object from Date Piker Value
*  this example expects the value to be saved in the format: yymmdd (JS) = Ymd (PHP)
*/

$format_in = 'Ymd'; // the format your value is saved in (set in the field options)
$format_out = 'd-m-Y'; // the format you want to end up with

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat($format_in, get_field('date_picker'));

echo $date->format( $format_out );

?>