# Radius Tag Date Format

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radius-tag-date-format/130861>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [March 4, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radius-tag-date-format/130861 "2008-03-04T00:13:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/glenatron)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radius-tag-date-format/130861/1 "2008-03-04T00:13:43Z")

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I’m using a basically unmodified version of the “Stylized Blog”  
template.

I want to use a custom date format but I can’t get it to work. In the  
following example, the first two dates do not display at all. The third  
one (the one that ships with Radiant) does display.

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Do I have to define my custom date formats before I can use them?

Thanks in advance,

Ben

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**Author:** ![glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/glenatron)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radius-tag-date-format/130861/2 "2008-03-04T00:22:58Z")

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It uses Time.strftime internally:  
[http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000297](http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000297)

IIRC, %F is not valid in a strftime string.

Sean

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**Author:** ![glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/glenatron)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radius-tag-date-format/130861/3 "2008-03-04T06:06:39Z")

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Thanks Sean! I assumed the strftime strings were the same as PHP. Lesson  
learned. 😉