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--- title: dateFormat description: Converts the textual representation of the `datetime` into the specified format. godocref: https://golang.org/pkg/time/ date: 2017-02-01 publishdate: 2017-02-01 lastmod: 2017-02-01 categories: [functions] menu: docs: parent: "functions" keywords: [dates,time,strings] signature: ["dateFormat LAYOUT INPUT"] workson: [] hugoversion: relatedfuncs: [Format,now,Unix,time] deprecated: false --- `dateFormat` converts the textual representation of the `datetime` into the specified format or returns it as a Go `time.Time` type value. These are formatted with the layout string. ``` {{ dateFormat "Monday, Jan 2, 2006" "2015-01-21" }} → "Wednesday, Jan 21, 2015" ``` {{% warning %}} As of v0.19 of Hugo, the `dateFormat` function is *not* supported as part of Hugo's [multilingual feature](/content-management/multilingual/). {{% /warning %}} See the [`Format` function](/functions/format/) for a more complete list of date formatting options in your templates.