Convert date field to textual date

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Hi - I have a list of events. The user add for each event a starting date and ending date.

I want the dates to appear textually, for example:
31 July–31 August 2022

Right now the dates appear like this:
2022-07-31 - 2022-09-30

my code:

        <?php foreach ($page->children()->listed() as $event) : ?>
                <div class='event-dates'>
                    <p><?= $event->starts() ?></p>
                    <p> <?= $event->ends() ?></p>
                </div>
        <?php endforeach ?>

Is there a way to achieve it with kirby?
I saw that there is a method toDate() which is almost there. is there anything similar?
thanks!

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On dates, you should use the toDate() method which accepts a format as parameter, e.g.

<p><?= $event->starts()->toDate('d M') ?></p>

https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php

3

Additional information:

If you need locale specific output, you have to set the locale in your config and set the date handler to strftime:

The use strftime format strings:

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime

4

thank you - this php manual is all I needed