This tag displays the Post/Item’s issue date and/or time.

Example

Quick Template

[Item:issue_date|date_format=#short_date]

PHP Template

$Item->issue_date( array( 'date_format' => '#short_date' ) );

Parameters

Return value

This tag displays content only, it does not have a return value.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

To give an example, here is a question from the forum:

Is there any way that I could add something so it shows as:
Day 331 of Week 48 Wednesday November, 28 2007

This is the answer:

Find your skin, crack open index.main.php, Find and replace something similar to this:

  $Item->issue_date( array(
      'before'      => ' ',
      'after'       => ' ',
      'date_format' => '\D\a\y z \o\f \W\e\e\k W\, l F\, d o',
  ) ); 

Some skins have the date in an image / icon. To do that you can use multiple $Item->issue_date() calls like so:

<ul class="datetime"> 
      <li class="month"> 
		<?php
			$Item->issue_date( array(
				'before'	=> '',
				'after'		=> '',
				'date_format'	=> 'm',
	    		        )
			);
		?> 
	</li> 
	<li class="day">
		<?php 
			$Item->issue_date( array(
				'before'	=> '',
				'after'		=> '',
				'date_format'	=> 'd',
				)
			);
		?>
	</li> 
</ul>

This is an example style:

ul.datetime {
	background: url(images/calendar-blue.png);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	width: 66px;
	height: 67px;
	text-align: center;
	float: left;
	color: white;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
	margin: 0px;
	margin-top: 3px;
	margin-right: 10px;
	padding-top: 1px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

li.month {
	list-style: none;
	padding-top: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
}

li.day {
	font-size: 35px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: rgb(65, 65, 65);
	padding-top: 8px;
	padding-bottom: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	letter-spacing: -1px;
	list-style: none;
}

You can also call issue_date property which returns it as a string in a DateObject format and retrieve a specific part of the date from it.
This is useful if you want to use the post item’s date for adding some programmable logic based on the date rather then just print it out.

 $issueDate = new DateTime($Item->issue_date);
 $issueDayOfMonth = $issueDate->format('j');
 echo $issueDayOfMonth;