# Changing 'MONTH DAY' to 'DAY MONTH'?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-month-day-to-day-month/103950>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [12월 10, 2018, 9:18오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-month-day-to-day-month/103950 "2018-12-10T21:18:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\
**Post date:** [12월 10, 2018, 9:34오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-month-day-to-day-month/103950/2 "2018-12-10T21:34:36Z")

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> [@Richie](#):
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> 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](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/6/e6c812b0b8f44c4d995284e4a71b4b3ff15bfdf4.png)

Here in NZ we also say day month year when writing dates but we also say Oct the 17th, so this does in fact make sense.

There is no way to change this via the UI.

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