Changing 'MONTH DAY' to 'DAY MONTH'?

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Hey everyone,

When viewing topics, the date on our Discourse is displayed in a ‘Month Day’ format.

However, here in the UK we write our dates as ‘Day Month’.

So viewing topics is sometimes incredibly confusing because ‘Oct 17’ is read / understood to simply be ‘October 2017’

Eg:

I’ve been all over my admin settings and for the life of me I can’t find this option anywhere.

I did a few searches here and found a similar but different thread, which makes me suspect there may not be a way to change this…

Can anyone advise?

[HAWK]

@Richie

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.

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.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

There’s no apostrophe in my screen shot mate

It would probably help the issue a bit if there was

@HAWK

There is no way to change this via the UI.

That’ll explain why I can’t find the option then

Thanks for the reply @HAWK

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

@HAWK

In that case there will be an apostrophe

Right, sorry, d’oh - just re-read your post - I’m with you now

[gerhard (Gerhard Schlager)]

Ideally Discourse could ship an English (UK) locale. There shouldn’t be that many differences…
You could always request it to be added to Transifex and start maintaining it there.

But for now overriding a few translations in the Admin panel should work too. Go to Customize → Text and change the date and time formats.

The names of the relevant keys are in two files. I’ve highlighted them for you.

• https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/73d2fc194dff0ad32d6912f763dfac57cc9e6001/config/locales/server.en.yml#L18-L44
• https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/73d2fc194dff0ad32d6912f763dfac57cc9e6001/config/locales/client.en.yml#L39-L65

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

@gerhard just wanted to say ‘thank you’ my good man!

This has precisely solved our issue

Thank you for taking the time to provide the highlighted examples.

Very grateful

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Had to change quite a few! This list scrolls on for another two pages

[mikechristopher]

@gerhard

Ideally Discourse could ship an English (UK) locale. There shouldn’t be that many differences…
You could always request it to be added to Transifex and start maintaining it there.

I have the English (UK) locale requested and has been added. I have also tweaked the date settings

Need to go through the other files yet to see what else needs to be tweaked if anything but its a start

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

@mikechristopher

I have the English (UK) locale requested and has been added

Great news @mikechristopher