Last updated - November 25, 2022
WordPress has loads of customization features and if you are looking to customize your website for visitors from different geographical locations, you have to localize your website content accordingly. Displaying the date and time in the format relevant to your target audience is an important thing in that.
Let us see how to change the date and time format in your WordPress website in this article.
Changing The Date Format
Go to your WordPress dashboard and go to Settings > General.
Here you can find a lot of general settings that you can tinker with. We are looking to change the date and time format now. For that, scroll down to Date Format where you will find different date formats which are given by default.
Besides the default formats, you can also set a custom date format and you can also preview all the formats right below the setting.
Changing the Time Format
Next, let’s see how to change the time format in WordPress. Right below the date format settings, you can find the settings to change the time formats. Similar to the previous one, you can find different time formats in both 12 hours and 24 hours.
Here, you can choose from the format you want or select a custom format in the custom format setting.
It is a pretty straightforward process. Besides customizing the date and time formats, you can also customize a lot of your WordPress website quite easily in your WordPress website’s dashboard.
You can see the visual explanation for changing the date and time formats in WordPress in the below video.
