# Localization Formatting Error in the %{date} function
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/localization-formatting-error-in-the-date-function/384283
**Category:** Translations
**Created:** [September 29, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/localization-formatting-error-in-the-date-function/384283 "2025-09-29T15:51:41Z")
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### Author:  [@inquisitorOzzak](https://meta.discourse.org/u/inquisitorOzzak)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/localization-formatting-error-in-the-date-function/384283/1 "2025-09-29T15:51:41Z")
Hello guys,
I’m working on a Croatian language Localization for a small tech forum.
And I found an error in the formatting of the %{date} function.
Here’s the print screen:
as you can see the year is displayed as “252025”.
it looks to me like:
- %e %b., **`%y%Y`** %H:%M
where it should be:
- %e %b., **`%Y`** %H:%M
ie. the year is inserted twice
The error shown above is on these js localization variables:
- `js.topic.created_at`
- `js.topic.bumped_at`
sooo…
Is there a way to fix this on my side (control panel or server side)?
Or is it a deeper problem in the source code?
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks in advance. 🙂
Regards,
Ozzak
ps.
And let me know if you need any more info on the problem.
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### Author:  [@inquisitorOzzak](https://meta.discourse.org/u/inquisitorOzzak)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/localization-formatting-error-in-the-date-function/384283/2 "2025-09-29T15:53:43Z")
another useful print screen
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/localization-formatting-error-in-the-date-function/384283/3 "2025-09-29T16:07:24Z")
Welcome to Meta 👋
> [@inquisitorOzzak](#):
>
> Is there a way to fix this on my side (control panel or server side)?
I think the text that doesn’t work as expected is `js.dates.long_with_year`. While the English version is `MMM D, YYYY h:mm a`, the Croatian version is `D MMM, YYY h:mm`, so there is one Y missing. You should be able to customize that on your site like [any other text](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-text-in-discourse/36092).
If that fixes the problem, it would be great if you could also improve this text for all forums where users use the Discourse interface in Croatian by improving the [translation on Crowdin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/contributing-translations-to-discourse/14882). (If you struggle with the interface of Crowdin, I’m happy to help. Alternatively, I can suggest the change if you tell me what it should be. You can learn more about the date formats of moment.js [here](https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/))
Thank you for improving the translation of Discourse!
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### Author:  [@inquisitorOzzak](https://meta.discourse.org/u/inquisitorOzzak)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 6:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/localization-formatting-error-in-the-date-function/384283/4 "2025-09-30T06:22:46Z")
yep… you are 100% correct.
that was the exact problem.
and I implemented your fix.
quick and easy.
thank you very much 🙂
ps.
and yeah…
another member of my team is working on Crowdin Croatian translations for the past few months.
I’ll tell her to include this as well.
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### Author:  [@inquisitorOzzak](https://meta.discourse.org/u/inquisitorOzzak)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 6:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/localization-formatting-error-in-the-date-function/384283/5 "2025-09-30T06:33:08Z")
also…
**[@mods](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/mods) -** I guess you can move this from “Bug” to “Support” category.
and mark it as “Solved”
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2025, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/localization-formatting-error-in-the-date-function/384283/6 "2025-10-30T06:34:02Z")
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