You can now customise the format used to display the date and time everywhere in Shopfront. You can also select what day a week starts on.
How to set the date and time format
- Open the Menu
- Select Setup
- Select General
- Scroll down to the Date & Time section (under the Company tab)
Here you can select the timezone your store is in, the date format to use, the time format to use and which day a week starts on.
You'll have to use format tokens (shown below) to specify the date and time format
Format Tokens
Format tokens are special tokens that we use to determine the formatting to use by swapping the token with the respective value.
| Token | Description | Example |
| Days | ||
| D | The day of the month without leading zeros | 1 to 31 |
| DD | The day of the month with leading zeros | 01 to 31 |
| Do | The day of the month with ordinal | 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc |
| ddd | Three letter text representation of the day of the week | Sun to Sat |
| dddd | Full text representation of the day of the week | Sunday to Saturday |
| d | The numeric day of the week (Sunday is 0) | 0 to 6 |
| E | The ISO numeric day of the week (Sunday is 1) | 1 to 7 |
| DDD | The day of the year without leading zeros | 1 to 366 |
| Weeks | ||
| W | The ISO week of the year (start Sunday) | 1 to 53 |
| w | The week of the year (start Monday) | 1 to 53 |
| Months | ||
| M | The month number without leading zeros | 1 to 12 |
| MM | The month number with leading zeros | 01 to 12 |
| MMM | Three letter text representation of the month | Jan to Dec |
| MMMM | Full text representation of the month | January to December |
| Years | ||
| YY | The last two digits of the year | 17, 18, 19, etc |
| YYYY | The full four digits of the year | 2017, 2018, 2019, etc |
| GGGG | The ISO week year (used with the W token) | 2017, 2018, 2019, etc |
| gggg | The week year (used with the w token) | 2017, 2018, 2019, etc |
| Hours | ||
| h | 12 hour format without leading zeros | 1 to 12 |
| hh | 12 hour format with leading zeros | 01 to 12 |
| H | 24 hour format without leading zeros | 0 to 23 |
| HH | 24 hour format with leading zeros | 00 to 23 |
| Minutes | ||
| mm | Minutes with leading zeros | 00 to 59 |
| Seconds | ||
| ss | Seconds with leading zeros | 00 to 59 |
| Time Period | ||
| A | Uppercase version of the time period | AM, PM |
| a | Lowercase version of the time period | am, pm |
| Time Zone | ||
| ZZ | The timezone offset without a colon | -1200 to +1400 |
| Z | The timezone offset with a colon | -12:00 to +14:00 |
When reporting some of the tokens aren't available to use so they are mapped to other tokens (or ignored). Care will need to be taken when using the following tokens:
| Token | Mapped To |
| E | d |
| a | A |
| ZZ | (ignored) |
| Z | (ignored) |
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