# Date format version 3.3

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**Category:** Need Help\
**Created:** [August 31, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/date-format-version-3-3/1079 "2016-08-31T15:58:52Z")\
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@Diego thanks for reply, I wound up just doing

```auto
echo "<td style=\"width:40px;\">" . $row->lastedit->toDateTimeString() . "</td>";

```

Found it tucked away in a trait. Wasn’t in the docs, I created an issue and they are adding it to docs. I was hoping there was a global setting to change the format to Y-m-d H:i:s for datetime, but I guess there is not a config setting for it. Naturally I could always format with php like:

```auto
echo "<td style=\"width:40px;\">" . date_format($row->lastedit, 'Y-m-d H:i:s') . "</td>";

```

But since I am using cake I figured I’d try their way.

See [Chronos FormattingTrait](http://discourse.cakephp.org/t/chronos-formattingtrait/1239/2)

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