# Change to DD Mmm / Mmm 'YY for post dates **URL:** \ **Category:** UX\ **Created:** [2014年三月11日 05:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625 "2014-03-11T05:44:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![xcambar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xcambar/32/116626_2.png) [@xcambar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xcambar)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月31日 11:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/24 "2015-08-31T11:59:53Z")
What our users don’t complain about so far (by descending priority): - relative dates for posts less than a week old. - `DD Mmm` for posts older than a week in the current year. - `MM YYYY` for posts before the current year. (but french market, so `YYYY/MM` may be more suitable for an international audience) Self-correct: yes, during the first week and month of the year, dates mostly fall in the 3rd category, but really, no one cares. ---
**Author:** ![Rene](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rene/32/115724_2.png) [@Rene](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rene)\ **Post date:** [2015年九月24日 18:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/25 "2015-09-24T18:30:19Z")
Are there any plans to fix this? we would like to use a full date too on [http://discuss.gradle.org](http://discuss.gradle.org) ---
**Author:** ![calmh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/calmh/32/115466_2.png) [@calmh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/calmh)\ **Post date:** [2015年九月24日 19:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/26 "2015-09-24T19:45:48Z")
For what it’s worth, this is actually relatively straight forward to patch when bootstrapping the image. In your `yml` file (standalone or web), in the same section that pulls in the plugins: ```plaintext ... hooks: after_code: - replace: global: true filename: /var/www/discourse/config/locales/client.en.yml from: /"MMM .YY"/ to: "\"MMM YYYY\"" - replace: global: true filename: /var/www/discourse/config/locales/client.en.yml from: /"MMM D"/ to: "\"D MMM\"" - exec: cd: $home/plugins cmd: - mkdir -p plugins - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git ... ``` The two `replace` sections are the meat of it, the rest is for context. They massage the default English localization (`en`) to change the formats in question. Edit the replacement formats to taste. I don’t actually run with the second one any more, as I think the first replacement does enough to distinguish the month-year pattern from the month-day one. And it’s not like those 10 or so extra pixels spent on the `20` vs `'` were doing something else otherwise. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [2015年九月24日 21:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/27 "2015-09-24T21:10:55Z")
We plan to add support for customising the strings via ui, will make sure it happens earlier in the release rather than later ---
**Author:** ![Rene](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rene/32/115724_2.png) [@Rene](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rene)\ **Post date:** [2015年九月24日 21:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/28 "2015-09-24T21:39:11Z")
Hey Sam, thanks for the update! ---
**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [2015年十月12日 01:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/29 "2015-10-12T01:28:50Z")
I just got hit by this on: [Searching with quoted term doesn't highlight the whole term](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-with-quoted-term-doesnt-highlight-the-whole-term/31954) ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/f/4f93ce580363bd61fb12eb615f25842540af5a76.png) `Aug 11` reads to me as “August 2011”, I think we should just at least swap stuff around for dates… `11 Aug` is just so much less ambiguous and a trivial change. Should I go ahead and do that? ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [2015年十月12日 02:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/30 "2015-10-12T02:03:34Z")
Probably fine, but technically it is `Aug 11` vs `Aug '11` ---
**Author:** ![iamntz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamntz/32/114670_2.png) [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)\ **Post date:** [2015年十二月28日 12:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/31 "2015-12-28T12:45:43Z")
Some of our users complained about the clarity of the post date, e.g: ```plaintext Oct '14 Oct 15 ``` It’s very easy to ignore that apostrophe… Anywho, there is any way of showing full year? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\ **Post date:** [2015年十二月28日 12:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/32 "2015-12-28T12:50:30Z")
> [@iamntz](#): > > Anywho, there is any way of showing full year? (Merged your topic in here) Not quite yet, but it’s planned: > [@sam](#): > > We plan to add support for customising the strings via ui, will make sure it happens earlier in the release rather than later ---
**Author:** ![iamntz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamntz/32/114670_2.png) [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)\ **Post date:** [2015年十二月28日 13:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/33 "2015-12-28T13:00:44Z")
I just had an idea - hacky, but it’s better than nothing: what if we use some css for yearly posts? So here is what i did: ```css span.relative-date.with-year:before { content: attr(title); font-size: 14px; } span.relative-date.with-year { font-size: 0; } ``` And here is how it looks like: ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/a/1a939705e13f5ca25689f1d8ea38c1dac9d57ed5.jpg) * * * A bit verbose, but i guess it’s better than nothing. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\ **Post date:** [2015年十二月29日 00:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/34 "2015-12-29T00:37:16Z")
> [@iamntz](#): > > Some of our users complained about the clarity of the post date, e.g: > > `Oct '14` > `Oct 15` > > It’s very easy to ignore that apostrophe… > > Anywho, there is any way of showing full year? Repost of solution as [requested by erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-post-year/37187/6): > [@Show post Year?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-post-year/37187/3): > > I’m kinda guessing here - but I think this will do it… Use `Admin` \> `Customize` \> `Text Content` … search for `'YY` which will list: `js.dates.tiny.date_year` `MMM 'YY` `js.dates.medium.date_year` `MMM D, 'YY` `js.dates.long_date_with_year` `MMM D, 'YY LT` `js.dates.long_date_with_year_without_time` `MMM D, 'YY` `js.dates.long_date_with_year_with_linebreak` `MMM D, 'YY
LT` Edit and adjust those replacing `'YY` with `YYYY` to get the full year. ---
**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\ **Post date:** [2017年五月8日 13:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/35 "2017-05-08T13:00:17Z")
Just in case anyone wants to change from the Month-Day format to the (internationally more common) Day-Month format: to find all relevant Text Content elements (quite a few actually), it’s best to **search for `MMM`**. UPDATE: I just realized that searching for `MMM` will not give you all relevant Text Content elements. (For example, dates in emails will still remain the same. Try searching for `date`. Some of the text elements that you need to change are using a different notation, such as `%B %-d, %Y` I believe it is Ruby. To understand and change them, this might be useful: > Format directives: > Date (Year, Month, Day): > %Y - Year with century if provided, will pad result at least 4 digits. > -0001, 0000, 1995, 2009, 14292, etc. > %C - year / 100 (rounded down such as 20 in 2009) > %y - year % 100 (00..99) > %m - Month of the year, zero-padded (01..12) > %\_m blank-padded ( 1..12) > %-m no-padded (1..12) > %B - The full month name (`January'') %^B uppercased (`JANUARY’‘) > %b - The abbreviated month name (`Jan'') %^b uppercased (`JAN’') > %h - Equivalent to %b > %d - Day of the month, zero-padded (01..31) > %-d no-padded (1..31) > %e - Day of the month, blank-padded ( 1..31) > %j - Day of the year (001..366) > Time (Hour, Minute, Second, Subsecond): > %H - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock, zero-padded (00..23) > %k - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock, blank-padded ( 0..23) > %I - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock, zero-padded (01..12) > %l - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock, blank-padded ( 1..12) > %P - Meridian indicator, lowercase (`am'' or `pm’‘) > %p - Meridian indicator, uppercase (`AM'' or `PM’') > %M - Minute of the hour (00..59) > %S - Second of the minute (00..60) > %L - Millisecond of the second (000..999) > The digits under millisecond are truncated to not produce 1000. > %N - Fractional seconds digits, default is 9 digits (nanosecond) > %3N millisecond (3 digits) > %6N microsecond (6 digits) > %9N nanosecond (9 digits) > %12N picosecond (12 digits) > %15N femtosecond (15 digits) > %18N attosecond (18 digits) > %21N zeptosecond (21 digits) > %24N yoctosecond (24 digits) > The digits under the specified length are truncated to avoid > carry up. > Time zone: > %z - Time zone as hour and minute offset from UTC (e.g. +0900) > %:z - hour and minute offset from UTC with a colon (e.g. +09:00) > %::z - hour, minute and second offset from UTC (e.g. +09:00:00) > %Z - Abbreviated time zone name or similar information. (OS dependent) > Weekday: > %A - The full weekday name (`Sunday'') %^A uppercased (`SUNDAY’‘) > %a - The abbreviated name (`Sun'') %^a uppercased (`SUN’') > %u - Day of the week (Monday is 1, 1..7) > %w - Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6) > ISO 8601 week-based year and week number: > The first week of YYYY starts with a Monday and includes YYYY-01-04. > The days in the year before the first week are in the last week of > the previous year. > %G - The week-based year > %g - The last 2 digits of the week-based year (00..99) > %V - Week number of the week-based year (01..53) > Week number: > The first week of YYYY that starts with a Sunday or Monday (according to %U > or %W). The days in the year before the first week are in week 0. > %U - Week number of the year. The week starts with Sunday. (00..53) > %W - Week number of the year. The week starts with Monday. (00..53) > Seconds since the Epoch: > %s - Number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. > Literal string: > %n - Newline character (\n) > %t - Tab character (\t) > %% - Literal ``%‘’ character > Combination: > %c - date and time (%a %b %e %T %Y) > %D - Date (%m/%d/%y) > %F - The ISO 8601 date format (%Y-%m-%d) > %v - VMS date (%e-%^b-%4Y) > %x - Same as %D > %X - Same as %T > %r - 12-hour time (%I:%M:%S %p) > %R - 24-hour time (%H:%M) > %T - 24-hour time (%H:%M:%S) (Source: [Class: Time (Ruby 2.2.0)](https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Time.html)). To summarize my experience of changing the time and date format to a more internationally compatible format: it is quite a chore as it feels like you have to make the same change over and over again in different variables. It would be great to eventually see this as a more user friendly site setting and I assume this is already on the team’s list. So here is my +1 for that. ---
**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\ **Post date:** [2018年七月2日 17:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/36 "2018-07-02T17:32:54Z")
Addendum: there is at least one more field to change which you won’t catch with any of the above searches: `short_no_year` It’s for [how the date shows up in summary emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-date-format-in-summary-emails/64766/3). Edit: and two more `time.formats.short` and `time.formats.long` ---
**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [2018年十二月24日 13:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/37 "2018-12-24T13:56:38Z")
Hmm… now that we do have lots of ancient content… maybe we should revisit this.. on hits from Google it is not super obvious you just landed on Ancient Content ™. I feel this topic would be clearer if it said “Oct 2015” vs “Oct '15” … That said… if we wait till 2032 this is going to be a lot less of a problem. 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\ **Post date:** [2018年十二月24日 20:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/38 "2018-12-24T20:25:28Z")
> [@sam](#): > > if we wait till 2032 this is going to be a lot less of a problem. 🤨 No, it won’t start not being a problem until 2032 is “old” , which is going to be at least another few years afterwards! ---
**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\ **Post date:** [2024年二月13日 10:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/40 "2024-02-13T10:54:28Z")
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