You can control how the date format is displayed is posts [/admin/settings/date-time], or if the date is displayed at all [/admin/build/themes/settings | “Display post information on”], but only to a certain extent. If you want complete control over how the date is displayed you will need to edit the node.tpl.php file that came with the theme.

If you wish to change the date display of comments, you’ll need to edit the comment.tpl.php file.

At about line number 11 of node.tpl.php file you’ll see:

<?php print t('Posted ') . format_date($node->created, 'custom', "F jS, Y") . t(' by ') . theme('username', $node); ?>


Here you can re-arrange the way the date and author information is displayed.

To change the date/time display to your taste, arrange the following variables in the manner you require:

a - "am" or "pm"

A - "AM" or "PM"

d - day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros; i.e. "01" to "31"

D - day of the week, textual, 3 letters; i.e. "Fri"

F - month, textual, long; i.e. "January"

h - hour, 12-hour format; i.e. "01" to "12"

H - hour, 24-hour format; i.e. "00" to "23"

g - hour, 12-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "12"

G - hour, 24-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. "0" to "23"

i - minutes; i.e. "00" to "59" j - day of the month without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "31"

l (lowercase ‘L’) - day of the week, textual, long; i.e. "Friday"

L - boolean for whether it is a leap year; i.e. "0" or "1"

m - month; i.e. "01" to "12"

n - month without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "12"

M - month, textual, 3 letters; i.e. "Jan" s - seconds; i.e. "00" to "59"

S - English ordinal suffix, textual, 2 characters; i.e. "th", "nd"

t - number of days in the given month; i.e. "28" to "31"

U - seconds since the epoch

w - day of the week, numeric, i.e. "0" (Sunday) to "6" (Saturday)

Y - year, 4 digits; i.e. "1999" y - year, 2 digits; i.e. "99"

z - day of the year; i.e. "0" to "365"

Z - timezone offset in seconds (i.e. "-43200" to "43200")

More information about customizing date/author in Drupal: http://drupal.org/node/121823 You can read more on PHP date formatting at: http://php.net/date