For support Cisco community: Cisco Community Date Format is Wrong

[Armen Sargsyan]

Hi dear,
for several years, they have been noticing that the Cisco community website has the wrong time format across the entire page. Is there any way to fix this? You can find help in the attachment, where the month is overwritten by minutes.
Thx.

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[rupeshah]

Hello Armen,

I appreciate you reaching out regarding this. This issue was addressed and fixed some time ago, and the time format is now displaying correctly across the entire Cisco Community.

For your reference, I have attached a screenshot confirming the proper display. Please let me know if you notice any further discrepancies.

[Armen Sargsyan]

Hello Rupeshah,
may be for you is correct displayed datetime, but for me it isn't correct, see the attachment from today:

[echo · Accepted solution]

I  noticed the same thing that dates are gibberish and then searched the general forum to find if this has been dealt with already -- it was, in this very same thread I am replying to.

Since I am a new user I just set up preferences in my settings and I recalled that I changed the date format too. The default is English-based month-day-year which was noted as MM-dd-yyyy. I changed this to dd-mm-yyyy -- because I want the days be before months. And why keep the uppercase months there? No need, there can't be anything else meaningful, right?

But now I just checked that for some reason 1. the uppercase months part (MM) is importand and 2. the lowercase month part (mm) does something totally different, who knows what. When I changed my date format back to uppercase version dd-MM-yyyy, the dates are OK again. I even changed it to dd.MM.yyyy since this is the way dates are written it in my native language.

Suggestion to the admins: since the "mm" screws things up, please take this input as MM and whoever user changes this in the future won't see this strange thing.

One tiny thing though: the dates in search results have their own format yyyy-MM-dd regardless of my settings. But I don't mind, the order of the three counterparts is OK for me (and not so important perhaps except the year).