From fdb9451326211d6c9ef572e1e460d9e42c33d8c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Biryukov <sergeybiryukov@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 22:38:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary assignment and concatenation from
 the_date() and get_the_date().

props juliobox.
fixes #27181.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@27230 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 src/wp-includes/general-template.php | 15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/wp-includes/general-template.php b/src/wp-includes/general-template.php
index 5eb3e3dc3a..cb61c58ad2 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/general-template.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/general-template.php
@@ -1403,14 +1403,12 @@ function the_date_xml() {
  */
 function the_date( $d = '', $before = '', $after = '', $echo = true ) {
 	global $currentday, $previousday;
-	$the_date = '';
+
 	if ( $currentday != $previousday ) {
-		$the_date .= $before;
-		$the_date .= get_the_date( $d );
-		$the_date .= $after;
+		$the_date = $before . get_the_date( $d ) . $after;
 		$previousday = $currentday;
 
-		$the_date = apply_filters('the_date', $the_date, $d, $before, $after);
+		$the_date = apply_filters( 'the_date', $the_date, $d, $before, $after );
 
 		if ( $echo )
 			echo $the_date;
@@ -1434,14 +1432,13 @@ function the_date( $d = '', $before = '', $after = '', $echo = true ) {
  */
 function get_the_date( $d = '' ) {
 	$post = get_post();
-	$the_date = '';
 
 	if ( '' == $d )
-		$the_date .= mysql2date(get_option('date_format'), $post->post_date);
+		$the_date = mysql2date( get_option( 'date_format' ), $post->post_date );
 	else
-		$the_date .= mysql2date($d, $post->post_date);
+		$the_date = mysql2date( $d, $post->post_date );
 
-	return apply_filters('get_the_date', $the_date, $d);
+	return apply_filters( 'get_the_date', $the_date, $d );
 }
 
 /**