<div dir="ltr">By design:<div><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_date">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_date</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px">SPECIAL NOTE:</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)"> When there are multiple posts on a page published under the SAME DAY, the_date() only displays the date for the first post (that is, the first instance of the_date()). </span><br>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Easiest work-around: the_time( get_option( 'date_format' ) )</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:30 PM, priyanshu mittal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:priyanshu.mittal@gmail.com" target="_blank">priyanshu.mittal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In my themes blog page I had used the_date function to display the post published date but in some of the posts the date is not displayed so I decided to use the_time instead and now got the desired result can you please tell me why the_date function not producing the desired output ? </div>
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