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Use the following mapping:
“WWW” represents the abbreviation of the week;
“DD” represents a two-digit day;
“MMM” represents the first three letters of the month;
“YYYY” represents a four-digit year, and “YY” represents a two-digit year.
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Web UI
Settings > Time&Date > Date Format
Phone UI
Color Screen Phones:
Menu > Basic > Time & Date > Time & Date Format > Date Format
Black-and-white Screen Phones:
Menu > Settings > Basic Settings > Time&Date > Time & Date Format > Date Format
Parameter lcl.datetime.date.format
<y0000000000xx>.cfg
Description It configures the display format of the date.
Permitted
Values
Any combination of Y, M, D, W and the separator (for example, space, dash, slash).
Use the following mapping:
Y = year, M = month, D = day, W = day of week
“Y”/”YY” represents a two-digit year, more than two “Y” letters (for example, YYYY) represent a four-
digit year;
“M”/“MM” represents a two-digit month, “MMM” represents the abbreviation of the month, three or more
than three “M” letters (for example, MMM) represent the long format of the month;
One or more than one “D” (for example, DDD) represents a two-digit day;
“W”/“WW” represents the abbreviation of the day of the week, three or more three “W” letters (for
example, WWW) represent the long format of the day of the week.
For the more rules, refer to
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Set the following:
lcl.datetime.date.format = DD.MM.YYYY
Then a new date format is added on the phone.
To make the newly added date format take effect, you also need to set the following:
local_time.date_format = 20
You can also manually select this new date format via the web/phone user interface.
Date Customization Rule
You need to know the following rules when customizing date formats:
Format
Description
Y/YY
It represents a two-digit year.
For example, 16, 17, 18…
Y is used more than twice (for example, YYY, YYYY)
It represents a four-digit year.
