WP query date output wrong

• ForbiddenChunk

• September 17, 2020 at 11:35 pm

I have created a CPT called meetings and added the date field. I have created 2 posts with dates;

24/10/2019
11/09/2020

This is my code;

<?php 
    $args = array( 
    	'post_type' => 'meetings'
    );
    $loop = new WP_Query( $args );
    while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); 

	$date = get_field('date');

	$month = date( "M", strtotime($date) ); 
	$year = date( "Y", strtotime($date) ); 

	// echo $date;
	echo '<br>';
	echo $month;
	echo '<br>';
	echo $year; 

	?>

    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="meeting">
    	<br>
		<?php the_field('date'); ?>
		<br>
    </a>
    <br><br>
<?php endwhile; ?>      
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

Yet when it outputs, it comes with as;

Jan
1970
24/10/2019

Nov
2020
11/09/2020

I have no idea how it’s getting Jan 1970 and Nov 2020???

The bottom date is correct but comes with the_field('date');

• John Huebner

• September 18, 2020 at 3:09 am

Because DD/MM/YYYY is not a valid date format for strtotime(). strtotime() is assuming this is MM/DD/YYYY

https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.date.php

• ForbiddenChunk

• September 18, 2020 at 6:02 pm

Hi @hube2,

I worked out it was the output format that was causing the confusion. Once I had adjusted that in the back-end it worked.

Thanks for the help though 🙂