About
The TimeAndDate module allows administrators to customize how dates and times are displayed throughout the application. This includes adjusting default date formats for different languages and defining how time is represented.
With this module, admins can configure three date formats used in various locations in the application:
- Long: Full date, including the day of the week (e.g., Saturday, June 12, 2025).
- Short: Date without the day of the week (e.g., June 12, 2025).
- Long with no year: Full date without the year (e.g., Saturday, June 12).
Each format is used on different pages or locations within the application. For details, see the Setting the Date and Time Format Display article.
Admins can also define language-specific date formats, which is especially useful for languages like Japanese, where unique date characters are required. By default, the system uses preconfigured formats, but these can be customized using tokens.
Date format tokens
Admins can build custom date formats using the following tokens:
- YYYY: 4-digit year (e.g., 2019)
- YY: 2-digit year (e.g., 19)
- MMMM: Full-length month (e.g., June)
- MMM: Abbreviated month (e.g., Jun)
- MM: Zero-padded month (e.g., 06)
- M: Month (e.g., 6)
- dddd: Full day of the week (e.g., Sunday)
- DD: Zero-padded day of the month (e.g., 01)
- D: Day of the month (e.g., 1)
- Do: Day of the month with an ordinal (e.g., 1st)
Examples of common date formats
- YYYY-MM-DD: Displays as 2019-06-01
- MMMM Do, YYYY: Displays as June 1st, 2019
- [The] Do [of] MMMM: Displays as The 1st of June
- M/D/YYYY: Displays as 6/1/2019
- YYYY[年] MM[月] DD[日] dddd: Displays as 2020年 5月11日 火曜日
Configure
- Go to your Configuration Management console and click on the TimeAndDate module. You can also navigate to it directly using a link: https://{your_KMS_URL}/admin/config/tab/timeAndDate.
- Configure the following:
The TimeAndDate page displays.
timeDisplay - Choose how to show the time in the application. Choose from AM/PM or 24h.
languageDates
Change the default date formats for any of the site’s languages.
Click +Add "languageDates".
Additional fields display.
language - Choose the language from the drop-down list you would like to apply these specific date format to from the site’s languages. Each language may have its own setting, if left empty, the default is used.
longDate - Full date including the day of the week, for example, Saturday, June 12, 2025.
shortDate - Date not including the day of the week, for example, June 12, 2025.
longDateNoYear - Date including the day of the week, but no year, for example, Saturday, June 12.
weekStartDay - Choose from the drop-down list which day starts the week.
uploadDateStyle - Select how the media upload date is displayed to users:
- Choose x time ago to display relative dates, such as "3 months ago" or "4 days ago."
- Choose On date to display absolute dates, such as "On 4/5/2019," based on the selected date format.
editTimeDisplay - Choose the display format for date selectors when editing media data of type "date only":
- Month-Day (American)
- Day-Month (European)
3. Click Save.
