Hey everyone, When viewing topics, the date on our Discourse is displayed in a ‘Month Day’ format. However, here in the UK we write our dates as ‘Day Month’. So viewing topics is sometimes incredibly confusing because ‘Oct 17’ is read / understood to simply be ‘October 2017’ Eg: [26] I’ve bee…

Ideally Discourse could ship an English (UK) locale. There shouldn’t be that many differences… :slight_smile: You could always request it to be added to Transifex and start maintaining it there. But for now overriding a few translations in the Admin panel should work too. Go to Customize → Text an…

[image] Richie: So viewing topics is sometimes incredibly confusing because ‘Oct 17’ is read / understood to simply be ‘October 2017’ In that case there will be an apostrophe. [image] Here in NZ we also say day month year when writing dates but we also say Oct the 17th, so this does in fact …

There’s no apostrophe in my screen shot mate :confused: It would probably help the issue a bit if there was :slight_smile: [image] HAWK: There is no way to change this via the UI. That’ll explain why I can’t find the option then :cry: Thanks for the reply @HAWK :+1:t2:

[image] HAWK: In that case there will be an apostrophe Right, sorry, d’oh - just re-read your post - I’m with you now :blush:

@gerhard just wanted to say ‘thank you’ my good man! This has precisely solved our issue :clap:t2: [34] Thank you for taking the time to provide the highlighted examples. Very grateful :bowing_man:

Had to change quite a few! This list scrolls on for another two pages :smiley: [40]

[image] gerhard: Ideally Discourse could ship an English (UK) locale. There shouldn’t be that many differences… :slight_smile: You could always request it to be added to Transifex and start maintaining it there. I have the English (UK) locale requested and has been added. I have also tweak…

[image] mikechristopher: I have the English (UK) locale requested and has been added Great news @mikechristopher :clap:t2:

Changing 'MONTH DAY' to 'DAY MONTH'?

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mikechristopher December 14, 2018, 10:10am 8

I have the English (UK) locale requested and has been added. I have also tweaked the date settings

Need to go through the other files yet to see what else needs to be tweaked if anything but its a start

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Changing 'MONTH DAY' to 'DAY MONTH'?

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