Time and date format

Plone 4

For plone 4, the message catalog is used to customize the date format. This is so it can be customized per language.

https://dev.plone.org/wiki/DateTimeFormatting

Plone 3

Time and date format can be set Zope Management Interface

• Open ZMI
• Open portal_properties under your site root
• Open site_properties

You see two properties

• localTimeFormat (defaults to US style %b %d, %Y)
• localLongTimeFormat (defaults to US style %b %d, %Y %I:%M %p)

Available formatting codes are described in Python time module documentation.

After editing the properties press Save changes at the bottom of the page.

Example of European style format:

• localTimeFormat: %d.%m.%Y (like 1.12.2010)
• localLongTimeFormat: %H:%M %d.%m.%Y (like 12:59 1.12.2010)

Note that some templates may not honor these settings, but may do time and date formatting differently.