I would like to change the time format to 24 hours (from 3:00 PM to 15:00). To what do I need to change the current, h:mma and h:mm a? Thanks!

Answering my own question. It seems Discourse uses Moment.js format string. In the case of my request, it is simply a matter of changing h:mma and hmm a to HH:mm. More references on the Moment.js format page . I hope I did not break things! :slight_smile:

Go to Settings → Customize → Text And then search for :mm and then change the format according to what you want with the Moment.js format page as a guide. However, it doesn’t fully work. In Chat the timestamps went from the AM/PM style to a 24 hour clock, but not everything for some reason. Also d…

Actually changing country doesn’t change time to 24h on chat. But well, chat isn’t ready yet. But that is because of lack of translations, I reckon.

Time format to 24 hours

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Ed_Bobkov (Ed) June 6, 2020, 1:12pm 3

Hi! I didn’t realize how to do it in Discourse. What exactly did you do to change time format to 24 hours?

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Time format to 24 hours

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