Configure the date and time format
Date and time calculation
On the frontend, Sitefinity CMS supports the following ways for calculating date and time:
Modify date and time calculation and format
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:
EXAMPLE: Example behavior of
useBrowserLocale
, if the browser's language is English (US).
- If the
browserLocaleFormatWidth
is set to long
, the formats used in the date and time field will be "h:mm:ss a"
and "MMMM d, y"
, which looks like 9:22:13 am and July 10, 2021.
- If the
browserLocaleFormatWidth
is set to medium
, the formats used in the date and time field will be "h:mm:ss a"
and "MMM d, y"
, which looks like 9:22:13 am and Jul 10, 2021.
- If the browserLocaleFormatWidth is set to shor,t the formats used in the date and time field will be
"h:mm a"
and "M/d/yy"
, which will look like 9:22 AM and 7/10/2021.