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'' orpm’‘)
%p - Meridian indicator, uppercase (AM'' orPM’')
%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)).
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.