the_time('M') does not work in Wordpress

I need to get months like Jan, Feb in Wordpress. I hav开发者_如何学Ce tried:

the_time('M')
the_time('b')
the_date('M')
get_the_date('M')

But I get no output at all. All other formats except M work, and since it is printing the value right away I can not format it afterwards.

Any ideas?

the_time('M') and the_date('M') do same thing and working Other 2 maybe didn't work because i never used it try :

<?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> & <?php the_time('g:i a'); ?>

Where are you trying to run this? Remember that the_time() has to be used within the Loop, otherwise it won't have anything to print/return: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_time

Hope that helps!