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Customizing Date and Time Formats in Deskpro

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Published: 6 Sept 2023|Last updated: 7 Jan 2025

You can customize the format that Deskpro uses to display dates and times in the Dates and Times section of Admin > Help Center > Settings.

The formatting will apply to the Agent interface and Help Center.

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Enter the option under the format character column from the table below, that corresponds to the date layout you want to display.

Example


The date format M j Y means that when the interface needs to display a date, it will display something like "Jan 1 2017". If you wanted it to display, "1st January 15", you would edit the Date format field to read "jS F y".

Day

Format character

Description

Example output

d

Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros

01 to 31

D

A textual representation of a day, three letters

Mon through Sun

j

Day of the month without leading zeros

1 to 31

l (lowercase L)

A full textual representation of the day of the week

Sunday through Saturday

S

English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters

st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j

z

The day of the year (starting from 0)

0 through 365

Week

Format character

Description

Example output

W

ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday

Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year)

Month

Format character

Description

Example output

F

A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March

January through December

m

Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros

01 through 12

M

A short textual representation of a month, three letters

Jan through Dec

n

Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros

1 through 12

Year

Format character

Description

Example output

Y

A full numeric representation of a year in 4 digits

Examples: 1999 or 2003

y

A two-digit representation of a year

Examples: 99 or 03

Time

Format character

Description

Example output

a

Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem

am or pm

A

Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem

AM or PM

g

12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros

1 through 12

G

24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros

0 through 23

h

12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros

01 through 12

H

24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros

00 through 23

i

Minutes with leading zeros

00 to 59

s

Seconds, with leading zeros

00 through 59

Timezone

Format character

Description

Example output

I (capital i)

Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time

1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise

O

Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours

+0200

P

Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with a colon between hours and minutes

+02:00

Full Date/Time

Format character

Description

Example output

c

ISO 8601 date

2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00

r

RFC 2822 formatted date

Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200

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