Post Dates in wp_get_recent_posts list

[oqm4]

Using WP 3.3.2, the following statement worked perfectly:

<?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => '3', 'post_status' => 'publish' );
$recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args );
foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){
echo '<li id="date"><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '" title="'.esc_attr($recent["post_title"]).'" >' .  get_the_date('M d') . '</a></li><li><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '" title="'.esc_attr($recent["post_title"]).'" >' .   $recent["post_title"].'</a> - '.esc_attr($recent["post_excerpt"]).'</li><li id="breaker"></li>';
}
?>

However, since upgrading to 3.4 -- and subsequently to 3.4.1 -- the output contains the date on which the list appears vs. the individual post dates. For example,

• Apr 13 - Post Title - Post Summary
• Apr 13 - Post Title - Post Summary
• Apr 13 - Post Title - Post Summary

vs.

• Jun 13 - Post Title - Post Summary
• May 10 - Post Title - Post Summary
• Mar 01 - Post Title - Post Summary

This code works the same way for me on both 3.3.2 and 3.4.1.

As stated in Codex, get_the_date() relies on $post global, which this code doesn't set. This results in the date of the first or the last post in the main (or some other) loop being displayed, depending on where the code is called from.

Setting $post inside the foreach() loop makes it work as expected:

$args = array( 'numberposts' => '3', 'post_status' => 'publish' );
$recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args );
global $post;
foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){
$post = (object) $recent;
echo '<li id="date"><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '" title="'.esc_attr($recent["post_title"]).'" >' .  get_the_date('M d') . '</a></li><li><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '" title="'.esc_attr($recent["post_title"]).'" >' .   $recent["post_title"].'</a> - '.esc_attr($recent["post_excerpt"]).'</li><li id="breaker"></li>';
}
wp_reset_postdata();