Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

How can I change the date format? (Firefox Quantum)

  • 5 ŋuɖoɖowo
  • 12 masɔmasɔ sia le wosi
  • 3 views
  • Nuɖoɖo mlɔetɔ cor-el

more options

Dates are declared as YYYY-MM-DD in my locales. It worked well in the past, but firefox was upgraded to Quantum last week and now, I get MM-DD-YYYY, which is the worse option for me...

Dates are declared as YYYY-MM-DD in my locales. It worked well in the past, but firefox was upgraded to Quantum last week and now, I get MM-DD-YYYY, which is the worse option for me...

All Replies (5)

more options

Taking a guess here, as some MS Updates came out. Do you want to please check your system clock.

Double click the clock on the Task Bar and check that your Time is set Correctly as well as your date format. It can be changed here if it is wrong. Will need a reboot for system wide.

Personally I like how it is done here : dd/mm/yr it makes more sense.

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

more options

Thanks for the answer but unfortunately it does not help. - The date on my clock is correctly written 2017-12-01 according to what is defined in my locales

- what you like (dd-mm-yy) could be acceptable because it is the usual way people write it in Europe, but what I usually use (yyyy-mm-dd) is the only "sortable" format...

- and what I get (mm-dd-yyyy: American format) is really horrible for Europeans...

BR

more options

Defourny said

Thanks for the answer but unfortunately it does not help. - The date on my clock is correctly written 2017-12-01 according to what is defined in my locales - what you like (dd-mm-yy) could be acceptable because it is the usual way people write it in Europe, but what I usually use (yyyy-mm-dd) is the only "sortable" format... - and what I get (mm-dd-yyyy: American format) is really horrible for Europeans... BR

Ya, am Canadian so ya American makes no sense to me some times.

So where is this turning up ? What web mail or email program or document or ..... ? Is it showing up in please.

more options

Pkshadow said

Defourny said
Thanks for the answer but unfortunately it does not help. - The date on my clock is correctly written 2017-12-01 according to what is defined in my locales - what you like (dd-mm-yy) could be acceptable because it is the usual way people write it in Europe, but what I usually use (yyyy-mm-dd) is the only "sortable" format... - and what I get (mm-dd-yyyy: American format) is really horrible for Europeans... BR

Ya, am Canadian so ya American makes no sense to me some times.

So where is this turning up ? What web mail or email program or document or ..... ? Is it showing up in please.

I see this problem in browsing history Most Recent Visit date and time (that needs first to be selected to see it in the first place) . Please, note that it's not only the date that is "wrong", also time is 12 hours AM/PM instead of the desired 24 hours time.

more options

You can try the en-GB Firefox version to see if that makes a difference.