Title: Date & time language and format
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Date & time language and format

 *  Resolved [tdeleeuw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdeleeuw/)
 * (@tdeleeuw)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-language-and-format/)
 * Hi!
 * I’ve got everything up and running pretty well, but running into some problems.
   Everywhere the times are showed in am/pm format. Also on the ticket I see the
   date written in English.
 * Begint: Tue, 4th of October, 2016@5:00pm
    Eindigt: [@7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/7/):
   00pm
 * After changing my WP settings to:
 * d/m/Y
    H:i
 * and creating a new event, the date format in “Event Name @ d/m/Y” on my site 
   changed correctly. But the tickets remains in English like above. And the times
   on the site are also still am/pm.
 * Any tips where I can change this? Was reading about changing it in de language
   file? Which one exactly?
 * (I tried US English, Dutch and Portugese WP language settings, my site will be
   in Portugese pt_BR eventually)
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/opentickets-community-edition/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/opentickets-community-edition/)

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 *  Thread Starter [tdeleeuw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdeleeuw/)
 * (@tdeleeuw)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-language-and-format/#post-7606863)
 * Never mind, found out it’s hardcoded and not following WP settings.
 * Changed it manually in php
 *  Plugin Author [quadshot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quadshot/)
 * (@quadshot)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-language-and-format/#post-8199338)
 * [@tdeleeuw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdeleeuw/) thanks for the post
   and we noticed you found fix. marking resolved and thanks for using OT
 *  [Konceptuel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mky/)
 * (@mky)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-language-and-format/#post-8215069)
 * This plugin looks really good to me. Easy to set up and works great.
 * [@tdeleeuw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdeleeuw/)
    What needs to be 
   changed in order to make [OpenTickets Community Edition](https://wordpress.org/plugins/opentickets-community-edition/)
   follow WP settings?
 * [@quadshot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quadshot/)
    In terms of localization
   this is pretty important. Any chance that you will update the code to follow 
   WP settings and standards for Date, time, and localization.
 *  Thread Starter [tdeleeuw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdeleeuw/)
 * (@tdeleeuw)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-language-and-format/#post-8215519)
 * I’m not an expert on any WP stuff, so I just searched for the php file containing
   the code and changed it there. Not ideal.
 * Just later I found out it is all in the translation files. So I’m using WP plugin
   called Loco Translate now and with that I edited a lot of stuff in the plugin.
   Date/time notations are there as well. Look for:
 * MM-dd-yyyy and translate that to dd-MM-yyyy
    m/d/Y to d/m/Y etc.
 * There is a whole list to be found there, also for time notation. Just some stuff
   in the permalink url’s like am/pm I couldn’t fix, but that’s not a big issue 
   for me.
 * Also check this to know what all the letters (m M d yyyy, etc) mean: [https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php](https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php)
 *  [Konceptuel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mky/)
 * (@mky)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-language-and-format/#post-8216784)
 * [@tdeleeuw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdeleeuw/)
    Thank you 🙂 I use
   Loco Translate myself, but I was not aware that I could change date/time formats
   via the translations.

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Konceptuel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mky/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-language-and-format/#post-8216784)
 * Status: resolved