how to show date of latest post in wordpress site?

Question

i want to get the latest date of post in the homepage of my site. in this code :

the_modified_date('d F Y');

date is different in different pages (For example page 1,2,...). i want to show just the date of latest post that published. thanks.

Answer 1

you can use get_the_date('d F Y');

Answer 2

The last published post date is:

$last_post_date = get_lastpostdate( 'blog', 'post' );

and the last modified post date is

$last_post_modified = get_lastpostmodified( 'blog', 'post' );

Here we use the 'post' post type and the 'blog' for the timezone.

Check out the documentation on get_lastpostdate and get_lastpostmodified for more info.