Changing Blogger date format.
You can update the post and post comment date from the blog settings, under Formatting section.
AFAIK the "Date header format" setting is not available for the 2nd generation Blogger template.
In the template code, changing these settings affect the date property of a date object. For example, the following will display date based on the format you choose in the blog settings:
<data:post.date/>Another way is by updating the template code and use the format function. The format function takes a date symbols. You can freely change the order of the date symbol.
Syntax:
<b:eval expr='dateObject format "dateSymbol"'/>Example:
<b:eval expr='data:post.date format "d MMM YYY"' />Result:
30 Sep 2025See unicode.org for a complete list of date symbols. Not all on the list can be used in Blogger template. Here's a few that's working:
Date symbol | Description | Example Result |
MMMM | Month (full) | August |
MMM | Month (short) | Aug |
MM | Month (number, 2 digit) | 07 |
M | Month (number, no leading zero) | 7 |
dd | Day of the month (2 digit) | 05 |
d | Day of the month (no leading zero) | 5 |
YYY | Full year | 2021 |
YY | Year (last 2 digit) | 21 |
You can also access available properties on date object :
year
Returns the year.
month (number)
Returns the month of the year, e.g. 1 (January), 2 (February), and so on.
day (number)
Returns the day of the month.
iso8601
Return ISO8601 standard date format, e.g. 2021-11-01T10:13:10.436+07:00.
Example :
Posted in <data:post.date.year/>