# How to prevent smart dates in the calendar bbcode?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 1, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-prevent-smart-dates-in-the-calendar-bbcode/168927 "2020-11-01T16:56:27Z")\
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I would like to be able to show a date as a day of the week. Using `dddd` works if the date is at least a week away:

Saturday

```plaintext
[date=2025-11-01 time=18:00:00 timezone="Europe/Madrid" format="dddd"]

```

But if the date is yesterday or in 48 hours, the time appears along with yesterday/today/tomorrow:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/f/5f57f8109eb63a700fdbf38f5c5a6b4c2b26221d.png)

```plaintext
- [date=2020-10-31 time=18:00:00 timezone="Europe/Madrid" format="dddd"]
- [date=2020-11-01 time=18:00:00 timezone="Europe/Madrid" format="dddd"]
- [date=2020-11-02 time=15:00:00 timezone="Europe/Madrid" format="dddd"]
- [date=2020-11-03 time=15:00:00 timezone="Europe/Madrid" format="dddd"]

```

Is there a way to prevent this smart behavior?

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