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:

[image] David_Collantes: h:mma Hi! I didn’t realize how to do it in Discourse. What exactly did you do to change time format to 24 hours?

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…

Time format to 24 hours

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Jagster (Jakke Flemming) August 26, 2022, 9:50am 5

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.

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Time format to 24 hours

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