Title: Date format "broken"
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Date format "broken"

 *  [TribalDancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tribaldancer/)
 * (@tribaldancer)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-broken/)
 * I just completed an install of a fresh new WordPress site on BlueHost, and have
   been tweaking the individual settings to get things in place. But two things 
   are utterly confounding:
 * 1) My date format is set to “January 30, 2012”, but is displaying “30/1/2012”.
   I tried setting a custom date format to see if I could force it to display correctly,
   but as soon as the settings save, it RESETS back to the top option no matter 
   what I do.
 * 2) Related to #1, I want my week to start on Sunday. But when I set it, save 
   it, and the page is refreshed, it has reset back to the default Monday start.
 * I have only one Plug In installed, and I made sure it was deactivated just in
   case there was any weirdness conflicting, but nope. The date format is stuck,
   and the start of the week is stuck.
 * I have been doing Google searches for this for two hours now, and clearly I am
   not searching for the right term, because I can’t see others with this same issue
   and I am going utterly batty in no time. I have tried setting a new theme, resetting
   defaults and trying again, and nothing doing. I can’t possibly be the only one
   experiencing this? Any help is so welcome, and the faster the better! Haha!

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 *  [bh_WP_fan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bh_wp_fan/)
 * (@bh_wp_fan)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-broken/#post-2539727)
 * Try a different theme and see if it helps. Regardless of how you’ve set your 
   date/time, your theme can override it with something else.
 *  Thread Starter [TribalDancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tribaldancer/)
 * (@tribaldancer)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-broken/#post-2539754)
 * I did try a few different themes. Still nothing. I wonder if something about 
   the Plug In changed a setting in the DB that I can manually set…?Hrm.
 *  [bh_WP_fan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bh_wp_fan/)
 * (@bh_wp_fan)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-broken/#post-2539817)
 * Try a brand new test installation into a test folder and try changing around 
   the date settings on it and see if it works. If it does, then a change or plugin
   or such that you used on your current installation must have broken it.

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 * [format](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/format/)

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [bh_WP_fan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bh_wp_fan/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-format-broken/#post-2539817)
 * Status: not resolved

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