This Sep 16 '18 business annoys me to no end. Like most of the world's population my brain wants to parse dates either little or big endian.  I'd like to change the displayed date format to , but I use a number of devices (on occasion even the SE App on android). So even if I wanted to, using a custom css/js hack on my browser is not an option. But I cannot find an option to set this in my profile.  Can we please have this?!    Edit: I'm talking about the date format of older posts, where the "a few minutes ago" thing doesn't apply anymore.  I'm turning this support question into a feature-request, as per comments.
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My system uses the date format dd-MMM-yyyy. Most of the dates on SE/SO sites are formatted as MMM-dd-'yy.  Having only 'yy makes it especially hard to search for years. yyyy would make that a lot easier.  It would be really cool if this became user-configurable; I personally like the ISO 8601 format very much.  No matter what, the default should change; only about 33% of SE users are from the USA, and only about 20% of SO users are. So it makes sense to go for a form of DMY, as that is what most of the world uses.  Edit:
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Does anyone happen to know if there is a token I can add to my csv for a certain field so Excel doesn't try to convert it to a date?  I'm trying to write a .csv file from my application and one of the values happens to look enough like a date that Excel is automatically converting it from text to a date.  I've tried putting all of my text fields (including the one that looks like a date) within double quotes, but that has no effect.
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I want the server to always serve dates in UTC in the HTML, and have JavaScript on the client site convert it to the user's local timezone.  Bonus if I can output in the user's locale date format.
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Why do we have 2 date fields in the wp_posts? What's the purpose of the post_date_gmt? When does storing the greenwich time get handy?
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I have some issues about choosing how to align a Date/time data type in a field. Which is the best way to align this type of date and why? Right or left? P.S We use WPF.  [------25.03.2015] or [25.03.2015------]  Thank you :)
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The detail view of Thunar shows the modification time as localized date (dd.mm.YYYY for my location), which is fine, but I would like to see the time, too.   And it doesn't show the recently modified files in the same manner, butnew years new years  decorates them as 'yesterday, today, monday' and so on, which is a nice programming etude, but not really useful to me.   Au contraire - it is pretty annoying to have this mixture in the interface. The next version will look into my calender and mark some files 'easter 2007, moms birthday 2002' and 'third monday of last month'. Thank you!   But if ohters prefer it - I'm fine. I just want to know whether I can modify the setting somehow. This is Xubuntu 12.04 LTS, Thunar 1.2.3.
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I'm designing a website for a client that has some irregular trading hours. Some days they remain open until 2am, others they close at 10pm. They want these hours displayed on their landing page, so visitors can see what time they open &amp; close at a glance. The trouble is I have to work with an API that returns integers only. Based on these integers and the current time, I can display a currently open or currently closed flag accordingly. As it stands currently, this isn't possible. I can't use custom text anywhere, only integers (24 hour time). I'm having some difficulty working out how to display the time. Currently the client displays their hours like this;  Mon 8am - 2am Tue 8am - 2am Wed 8am - 10pm Thu 8am - 2am Fri 8am - 10pm  However I don't think this is correct, and looks quite confusing (what is 8am - 2am?) shouldn't it be;  Mon 8am - 12am &amp; 12am - 2am Tue 8am - 12am &amp; 12am - 2am Wed 8am - 10pm Thu 8am - 12am &amp; 12am - 2am Fri 8am - 10pm  Admittedly, this also looks quite confusing! Any ideas how I can achieve this in the most user friendly way possible, without using custom text?
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I need this date format in a visualforce page: "December 14, 2013". I can't seem to find the format options for visualforce. I read that it's the same as the java messageformat class options, but I cannot find a list for that either.  A little help would be much appreciated
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Can someone please explain how you can quickly set the YEAR within the date and time settings?  If the battery has been removed then the iPhone is reset back to Jan 1st 1970. This means that the network will not sync and you won't get a signal. Therefore the automatic date setting will not work either.  The only way I have managed so far is to literally scroll through everyday of every month of every year up to the present day until it is correct. This is naturally tiresome and also impractical as often in swiping you drag up the quick menu from the bottom.
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Is there any application which can manipulate time and date for any specific application? If I change date and time of system then browser can't let me access internet.  Any help will be appreciated. Thank you
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I've noticed a few posts (and it is only a few—maybe a handful) which are missing the year and time from the timestamp—The year is replaced with \yy and the time is replaced with AM/PM.  The timestamp shows as expected in the revision log (in the app) and everywhere on the site.  For example: two answers on                              App Version: 1.6.0.7 Device: iPhone 6s OS Version: Version 10.0.1 (Build 14A403)
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In an application when you are showing a date to someone (and you don't know their preferred format), what date format should you use?  USA or Rest-of-the-world?     For reference if anyone is not sure what these formats are, today's date would be:   USA = 10/07/2011 or October 7, 2011   Rest-of-the-world = 07/10/2011 or 7 October 2011   Assuming an equal probability that a user is from the USA or outside the USA, which format should I use?  Note, this question was largely triggered by the comments in .
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I generated a report that formats date as 20160509 and my Google Sheets locale is already set to United States. I've played around with various options within Format > Number > Date Format but I can't change the dates to MM/DD/YYYY format without doing a simple find and replace. How do I accomplish this?
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I've been using Javascript's Date for a project, but noticed today that my code that previously worked is no longer working correctly. Instead of producing Feb as expected, the code below produces March.   My code looks something like this:   current = new Date(); current.setMonth(current.getMonth()+1); //If today is Jan, expect it to be Feb now   This code worked everyday up until today. Is this a Javascript bug or am I going about this the wrong way?
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I wanted to use this, but I don't know if it's actually valid in English:     The specified date is invalid.It points to a non-existing day.   I'm not a native speaker, and I just want to say that the input points to a date that does not exist, like 30th February.
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I was curious about the date in URL segments, is there any SEO point of benefit? For example the following URLs:  http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/18/netflix-will-launch-in-the-netherlands-later-this-year-as-its-international-expansion-slows/ http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.in/2007/02/adding-favicon-icon-to-blogger-url.html  https://community.jivesoftware.com/blogs/jivespace/2013/05/15/eol-of-the-html5-ipad-web-app   In all the above URLs there is date segment. The information of those blogs can be fetched via blog stub like "netflix-will-launch-in-the-netherlands-later-this-year-as-its-international-expansion-slows" so why to use that date part?
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I am still working on formatting my references according to my department’s standard. I am currently trying to alter a date format but failing.  I need:  30. Sept. 2003.   Yet anything I do doesn’t seem to have any influence. Find attached a MWE:  \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{xpatch} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setmainlanguage[variant=british]{english} \usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode} \usepackage{csquotes} \usepackage{url} \usepackage[style=authoryear-ibid,backend=biber,doi=false,isbn=false,url=false,autolang=hyphen]{biblatex}      \addbibresource{Merkliste.bib}      \renewcommand*{\postnotedelim}{\addcolon\space}      \renewbibmacro{in:}{\ifentrytype{article}{}{\printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}     \renewcommand*{\intitlepunct}{\addspace}      \renewcommand{\bibpagespunct}{\ifentrytype{incollection}{\addperiod\addspace}{\addcolon\addspace}}  \DeclareFieldFormat   [online]   {url}{{#1}} \DeclareFieldFormat   [online]   {title}{\mkbibquote{#1\isdot}} \xpatchbibmacro{title}{\printfield[titlecase]{subtitle}}% {\printfield[titlecase]{subtitle}\ifentrytype{online}{\addperiod}{}}% {}{}% \DeclareFieldFormat{urldate}{#1} \DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{#1} \DeclareFieldFormat{multipostnote}{#1} \DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1} %% Here are my tries. \xpatchbibmacro{url+urldate}{\printfield{urlyear}\mkbibmonth{\thefield{urlmonth}}{\thefield{urlday}}}{}{}     \xpatchbibmacro{date+extrayear}{%   \printtext[parens]% }{%   \setunit*{\addperiod\space}%   \printtext% }{}{}  \xpatchbibmacro{title}{\printfield[titlecase]{subtitle}}% {\printfield[titlecase]{subtitle}\ifentrytype{article}{\addperiod}{}}% {}{}%  \AtEveryBibitem{\clearlist{language}} % clears language \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{note}}    % clears notes \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{series}}   % clears Series \AtEveryBibitem{\ifentrytype{book}{\clearfield{number}}{}} \AtEveryBibitem{\ifentrytype{book}{\clearfield{pages}}{}}  \begin{document} \nocite{*}.  \printbibliography \end{document}   and a .bib-extract:  ![@online{secretariat_a_la_politique_linguistique_quebec_dynamique_2014,     Author = {{Secr{\'e}tariat {\`a} la politique linguistique Qu{\'e}bec}},     Date-Modified = {2014-08-03 17:01:54 +0000},     File = {Dynamique des langues en quelques chiffres \: Tableaux - Secr{\'e}tariat {\`a} la politique linguistique.pdf:/Users/Moritz/Desktop/Dynamique des langues en quelques chiffres \: Tableaux - Secr{\'e}tariat {\`a} la politique linguistique.pdf:application/pdf},     Month = jul,     Title = {La dynamique des langues en quelques chiffres : Tableaux},     Urldate = {2014-07-28},     Year = {2014}}][1]