Format date/time

• matdoidge

• April 23, 2014 at 5:53 am

I’m using Advanced Custom Fields and I have installed the date/time plugin. I can successfully pullout the results of this field via:

<?php the_field( "gig_datetime" ); ?>

which results in something such as:

Sunday 27 April 2014 12:19 am

But I’m trying to format it to a format like:

2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00

So far I’m trying:

$format = "c";
$timestamp” = get_field("gig_datetime");

Then pulling out the time like:

<?php echo date_i18n( $format, $timestamp” ); ?>

However this is no longer using the value from the ACF and instead I think is using an American time value of todays date. I understand date_i18n uses localization which is obviously not what I want, however I’m not sure how to format the ACF data in the way I need. Help would be appreciated.

• enorog

• May 5, 2014 at 1:16 am

Hi,

This is how you should use date_i18n with ACF:

$dateformatstring = "l d F, Y";
$unixtimestamp = strtotime(get_field('date_picker'));
echo date_i18n($dateformatstring, $unixtimestamp);

This depends on your blogs language setting. If you want to manually specify the locale in PHP, ignoring WordPress, you can do it like this:

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR');
echo strftime("%A le %d %B, %Y");
//with day of the week = mercredi le 18 septembre, 2013