# How to change the date format in summary emails?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-date-format-in-summary-emails/64766>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [2017年六月19日 19:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-date-format-in-summary-emails/64766 "2017-06-19T19:03:17Z")\
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> [@tophee](#):
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> Where is the date format for digest emails set?

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/7eb5f783438bc0ea86fe22ffe6f2bb6c7d369d73/app/views/user_notifications/digest.html.erb#L115>

Which is defined in

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/0dee603ffca1c733e9fdcfcb18a45471e09d4872/app/mailers/user_notifications.rb#L132-L138>

Which means you’ll have to change the `short_no_year` strings to change the date format in digests.

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