WordPress:Formatting Date and Time
Customizing the Time and Date
Certain WordPress tag functions are used to display or return date and time information; the_date() and the_time() are examples of this. Some of these functions accept a parameter called a format string that allows you to determine how the date is going to be displayed. The format string is a template in which various parts of the date are combined (using "format characters") to generate a date in the format specified.
定义时间和日期
特定的WordPress标签功能用来显示或者返回日期和时间信息；the_date()和the_time()就是例子。这些功能中的一些接受一个叫做format string的参数，允许你确定如何显示日期。format string是一个日期的多个部分组合(使用 "format characters")起来按照指定的格式生成日期的模板。
For example, the format string:
l, F j, Y
creates a date that look like this:
Friday, September 24, 2004
例如format string如下:
l, F j, Y
建立的日期显示如下：
Friday, September 24, 2004
Here is what each format character in the string above represents:
l= Full name for day of the week (lower-case L).F= Full name for the month.j= The day of the month.Y= The year in 4 digits. (lower-case y gives the year's last 2 digits)
- (Commas are read literally.)
这里是上边字符串中每个format character的显示结果：
l= 星期几的全写(小写字母L).F=月的全写.j= 日.Y= 四位数字显示的年. (小写的y 显示年的最后两位)
- (逗号起分隔作用.)
WordPress is written in the programming language PHP. The date formatting functions in WordPress use PHP's built-in date formatting functions. Therefore, you can use the table of date format characters on the PHP website as a reference for building date format strings for use in WordPress.
WordPress是使用PHP代码编写的。WordPress中的日期是使用PHP的内建日期格式化功能实现的。这样，你可以使用PHP网页上日期format characters表格作为WordPress中建立日期format strings时的参考。