# Published Page date (day/month) in wrong order in French

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-date-day-month-in-wrong-order-in-french/396733
**Category:** Translations
**Tags:** page-publishing
**Created:** [February 22, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-date-day-month-in-wrong-order-in-french/396733 "2026-02-22T16:38:58Z")
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### Author: ![stephtara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephtara/32/517827_2.png) [@stephtara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephtara)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-date-day-month-in-wrong-order-in-french/396733/1 "2026-02-22T16:38:58Z")

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I suspect this is a localization issue, maybe the order of the month and day is hardcoded?

 ![Screenshot 2026-02-22 at 17.32.05](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/6/4/3646c85bce1030907176f1203dc1236074d9b998.png)

It should be “22 février” in that order and without caps. I have to say the year would be nice to display too (at least in my case… I’m ready to bet that people are going to print them).

Or maybe it’s a #dev:translations issue?

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-date-day-month-in-wrong-order-in-french/396733/2 "2026-02-22T17:11:48Z")

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Is there any place where you would write a date like this in French?

I think it’s a translation issue. The German date is 22. Februar. In general, the date formats are not that easy to find. I will update once I find the right text. But it may affect other places too, hence my question.

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### Author: ![stephtara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephtara/32/517827_2.png) [@stephtara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephtara)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2026, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-date-day-month-in-wrong-order-in-french/396733/3 "2026-02-22T17:17:46Z")

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No, if you write Février 22 in French it’s 2022. The day always comes before the month.

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-date-day-month-in-wrong-order-in-french/396733/4 "2026-02-22T18:01:06Z")

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I found the texts. I think there is more than one. If you search for `datetime_formats` in your site text (this might be helpful for testing) and on Crowdin, you should find them. They are difficult to read, but I think switching `%B` (full name of the month) and `%-d` (number of the day without a leading zero) in the cases where `B` is in front of `d` should improve things.

To change the months to lowercase, you need to change the `month_names` (I cannot find them in the site texts admin search, but you can see them on Crowdin). But I don’t know if this will result in unexpected lowercase month names somewhere else (Is there a case you write them with a capital letter in French?)

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### Author: ![stephtara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephtara/32/517827_2.png) [@stephtara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephtara)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/published-page-date-day-month-in-wrong-order-in-french/396733/5 "2026-02-22T18:08:39Z")

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ooh thanks, will look at all that when my brain is back! No, months are lowercase except if you start a sentence with them… which would be infrequent!