[theme-reviewers] Hard coding date format ?

[bravo keyl]

I saw some themes using the code like
*<?php the_time('j M, Y'); ?> *for posts-date formatting.

Is this okay..i mean if we do this we can't setting  date format in general
settings .

what's your view on this?
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