topic Re: Changing Date Format in Alfresco Archive

Changing Date Format

toadbrother — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:22:37 GMT

I notice that the default for Alfresco 3.3 is a 24 hour clock format. Some of my users may find this a little confusing. I was wondering if there was a way to change the date/time format so that a 12 hour am/pm clock appears.

Re: Changing Date Format

savic_prvoslav — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:49:25 GMT

you have
# Date Pattern
date_pattern=d MMMM yyyy
date_time_pattern=d MMMM yyyy HH:mm
time_pattern=HH:mm

in webclient.properties file, so just change to what you want for instance

date_pattern=d MMMM yyyy
date_time_pattern=d MMMM yyyy H:mm a
time_pattern=H:mm a

you have examples http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.text/FormatTime.html, so try it out.

Re: Changing Date Format

mthomas — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 06:29:34 GMT

Changing webclient.properties had no affect on my system. I still get Day/Month/Year 24H when I want Month/Day/Year 12h for all dates in Share. I can't figure out where else to change this. Should I place it in Global.properties?

Re: Changing Date Format

mthomas — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:07:38 GMT

Found how to change Share dates in C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\messages
common.properties and slingshot.properties.
Although that does not change the date format for data lists. When I select the yahoo.widget calendar date picker for my data lists it still is entering the date field with dd/mm/yy. Funny action since the default yahoo.widget settings are american standard mm/dd/yy. The way I would like it and the way I have it set in common.properties and slingshot.properties.
Does anyone know how to change the date field in the forms for data lists to mm/dd/yy?
Thanks!

Re: Changing Date Format

callen — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:00:46 GMT

The date for the date picker (for the English local) is controlled by
c:\alfresco\tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\form\form.get_en.properties

Copy this file over to

C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\form\ (make the directory if you do not already have an extensions form path)

Modify below (from d/M/yyyy and DD/MM/YYYY) to:

form.control.date-picker.entry.date.format=M/d/yyyy
form.control.date-picker.display.date.format=MM/DD/YYYY

(This works for version 4.0+ - I do not know about earlier versions)