the_archive_title() doesn't honour date format setting

[henry.wright]

the_archive_title() will output a title such as the following if the current page is a date archive.

Day: April 12, 2017

This date isn't in the format as set in Settings > General.

[johnbillion]

The date and time format settings have always been a little confusing because they're not actually used in many places in core and in themes.

In this case, the date format is explicitly set to F j, Y as it's a day archive. For month archives it's set to F Y. I don't think it makes sense for the date format setting to be used here.

[henry.wright]

Fair enough, John. Thanks for looking.

[knutsp]

Replying to johnbillion:

In this case, the date format is explicitly set to F j, Y as it's a day archive. For month archives it's set to F Y. I don't think it makes sense for the date format setting to be used here.

Why not? This is poor internationalisation.

For day archive it should be used. For month, either a special filterable setting or just 'Y-m'.

[johnbillion]

The date format is internationalised with _x(), it just doesn't use the value from the Date Format setting.

get_the_date( _x( 'F Y', 'monthly archives date format' ) )