Title: wp_xmlrpc_server::_convert_date
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# wp_xmlrpc_server::_convert_date( string $date ): 󠀁[IXR_Date](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/ixr_date/)󠁿

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_convert_date/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_convert_date/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_convert_date/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_convert_date/?output_format=md#related)

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Converts a WordPress date string to an [IXR_Date](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/ixr_date/)
object.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_convert_date/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$date`stringrequired

Date string to convert.

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_convert_date/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 [IXR_Date](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/ixr_date/) [IXR_Date](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/ixr_date/)
object.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_convert_date/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    protected function _convert_date( $date ) {
    	if ( '0000-00-00 00:00:00' === $date ) {
    		return new IXR_Date( '00000000T00:00:00Z' );
    	}
    	return new IXR_Date( mysql2date( 'Ymd\TH:i:s', $date, false ) );
    }
    ```

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## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_convert_date/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [IXR_Date::__construct()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/ixr_date/__construct/)`wp-includes/IXR/class-IXR-date.php` |

PHP5 constructor.

  | 
| [mysql2date()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/mysql2date/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Converts given MySQL date string into a different format.

  |

| Used by | Description | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::mw_getPost()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/mw_getpost/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Retrieves a post.

  | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::mw_getRecentPosts()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/mw_getrecentposts/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Retrieves list of recent posts.

  | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::mt_getRecentPostTitles()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/mt_getrecentposttitles/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Retrieves the post titles of recent posts.

  | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::blogger_getPost()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/blogger_getpost/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Retrieves a post.

  | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::blogger_getRecentPosts()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/blogger_getrecentposts/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Retrieves the list of recent posts.

  | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::wp_getPageList()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/wp_getpagelist/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Retrieves page list.

  | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::_prepare_page()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_prepare_page/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Prepares page data for return in an XML-RPC object.

  | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::_prepare_user()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_prepare_user/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Prepares user data for return in an XML-RPC object.

  | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::wp_newPost()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/wp_newpost/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Creates a new post for any registered post type.

  | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::wp_editPost()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/wp_editpost/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Edits a post for any registered post type.

  | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::_convert_date_gmt()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_convert_date_gmt/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Converts a WordPress GMT date string to an [IXR_Date](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/ixr_date/) object.

  | 
| [wp_xmlrpc_server::_prepare_post()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_xmlrpc_server/_prepare_post/)`wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php` |

Prepares post data for return in an XML-RPC object.

  |

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