How to change date and time to European

Using Concrete / Help
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I like Concrete CMS, but there are a few things that is of some concern. My main issue at the moment is that date and time are in format ‘March 11 2026 11:37 PM’.

I am Swedish and we don’t use AM/PM, we use 24 hrs. And I would also prefer 2026-03-11 as time format.

Is that posible to change in Concrete CMS? If so, is it available through dashboard, or do I have to do changes in some php-files?

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2

What’s your defsult site language? If it’s American English (en_US), then you are asking Concrete to use the American date/tine formatting.
If you want to use English with non American dates, you can use British English

3

But neither British nor American English has 24 hours time, or dates like Y-M-D.

I tried to change it to Swedish (my native language) as default, but that didn’t change anything.

4

Please remark that Concrete comes with 2 different “language” configurations:

  • the language of the website, defined in Dashboard > System & Settings > Multilingual > Multilingual Setup
  • the language of the currently logged in users, defined in Dashboard > System & Settings > Basics > Languages

Having two different languages is very handy when you work with multilingual websites (for example you can have an English edit interface even if you are modifying a page that’s in Korean).

Which language did you configure?