Configure the date and time format

On the frontend, Sitefinity CMS supports the following ways for calculating date and time:

• Calculate the date and time server-side
  This is the default behavior. 
  All the dates are rendered according to the current culture of the page and the time zone of the current site in Sitefinity CMS. 

  By default, the date and time formats used by the date and time fields are h:mm a and M/dd/yyyy for time and date, respectively.

• Calculate the date and time client-side
  The date and time can also be calculated on the client, using the client browsers time zone information.
  

You change the date and time settings by modifying the config.json file, located in the ~\SitefinityWebApp\AdminApp\ folder:

You do this by modifying the dateTimeFormat object, which has the following properties:

You can configure the following:

useBrowserLocale

By default, this property is set to false, which means that the date and time are calculated server-side.

If you set it to true, then date and time is calculated client-side.

browserLocaleFormatWidth 

This property can be short, medium or long.
If this property is not provided and useBrowserLocale is true, it defaults to short.

timeFormat

This property accepts the following values:

dateFormat

This property accepts the following values: