How to format wordpress post date

Changing wordpress post or custom post date format is very easy. If you are using WP_Query and using while loop you can format the date with this

<?php echo date('l, F j, Y', strtotime(get_the_date())) ?>

Output will be "Friday, September 24, 2004"

If you are using get_posts() function and using foreach loop code will be like this

<?php echo date('l, F j, Y', strtotime($post->post_date)) ?>

Here are some example of formats

Format String Examples

Here are some examples of date format with the result output.