title: Alfresco: changing date and time formats
body: <p>I have a few places where I need to change how the date format displays in my Alfresco share:</p>
  
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  <p><strong>Calendar Format</strong></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/boFHh.png" alt="Calendar Format"></p>
  
  <p>Needs to be in MM/DD/YYYY format.</p>
  
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  <p><strong>Date in Info.ftl Control</strong></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CIuql.png" alt="InfoFTL"></p>
  
  <p>Needs to be in DDD MM DD YYYY format.</p>
  
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  <p><strong>Date().toString()</strong></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LL1Vg.png" alt="Date()"></p>
  
  <p>This is being displayed in a data list. Ideally it should read: "Tue Jul 2015 8:27:51 (EST)" </p>
  
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  <p>I located common.properties and made the following changes:</p>
  
  <pre><code>## 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
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But none of them seem to affect any date formats anywhere. My questions:</p>
  
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  <li>Where do I need to make additional changes to get the above formats to work?</li>
  <li>How do I change the time zone?</li>
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  <p>Essentially, I need to change everything to Eastern US time zone and formats.</p>