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Alfresco: changing date and time formats

I have a few places where I need to change how the date format displays in my Alfresco share:

Calendar Format

Calendar Format

Needs to be in MM/DD/YYYY format.

Date in Info.ftl Control

InfoFTL

Needs to be in DDD MM DD YYYY format.

Date().toString()

Date()

This is being displayed in a data list. Ideally it should read: "Tue Jul 2015 8:27:51 (EST)"

I located common.properties and made the following changes:

## Date Formats
#Used client side (uses Alfresco.util.formatDate)
date-format.default=mmm ddd d yyyy HH:MM:ss
date-format.defaultDateOnly=mmm ddd d yyyy
date-format.shortDate=m/d/yy
date-format.mediumDate=mmm d, yyyy
date-format.mediumDateNoYear=mmm d
date-format.longDate=mmmm dd, yyyy
date-format.longDateNoYear=mmmm dd
date-format.fullDate=mmmm, d dddd, yyyy
date-format.fullDateTime=mmmm, d dddd, yyyy 'at' h:MM TT
date-format.shortTime=h:MM TT
date-format.mediumTime=h:MM:ss TT
date-format.longTime=h:MM:ss TT Z
date-format.monthYear=mmmm yyyy
date-format.dayDateMonth=mmmm, d dddd
date-format.am=am
date-format.pm=pm

But none of them seem to affect any date formats anywhere. My questions:

  1. Where do I need to make additional changes to get the above formats to work?
  2. How do I change the time zone?

Essentially, I need to change everything to Eastern US time zone and formats.

Solution

  • Different files where date format are mentioned. Each of them are responsible for rendering dates in different places

    <ALF_HOME>\tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\form\form.get_en.properties

 <ALF_HOME>\tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\messages\common.properties

<ALF_HOME>\tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\messages
common.properties\slingshot.properties