# Date format changing

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/date-format-changing/294107
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 8, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/date-format-changing/294107 "2009-08-08T15:41:33Z")
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### Author: ![outback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9f8e36/32.png) [@outback](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/outback)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/date-format-changing/294107/1 "2009-08-08T15:41:33Z")

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Hi all,

I’m having a really huge problem formating the date of my MySQL database field. the date field shows by default yyyy-mm-dd and I need it to show mm.dd.yyyy can anyone explain to me how can I do this?

thanks for the attention