Manage your time zone, location, language, and date format for your Squarespace 5 site in the Locale tab of Website Settings.
Open the Locale tab
To manage your regional settings:
- In the Website Management panel, click Website Settings under Structure.
- Click Locale.
- Use the options below to choose your Geography and Time Zone and Day/Time Presentation settings.
Country, language, and time zone
Use the options in the Date/Time Presentation section to adjust your site's regional settings.
- Country - Use the drop-down menu to choose your country. If you choose United States, you can also choose a state.
- Language - Select your language. This updates built-in dates, such as the dates on blog posts.
- Time Zone - Choose your local time zone. This sets the publication time for updates to your site.
Note: Setting a language doesn't translate other areas of your site into that language. For help adding languages other than English to your site, visit our tips on creating a multilingual site.
Date and time format
Use the options in the Date/Time Presentation section to adjust how dates display on your site.
- Long Date Format - Used for files, galleries, blog posts, and Change Tracker pages.
- Medium Date Format - Used for blog post comments and Discussion page entries.
- Short Date Format - Used in the Change Tracker sidebar widget.
For any of these, you can choose from a list of pre-formatted options, or click Custom to create your own format.
Tip: Your site language sets the day and month text.
Custom date formats
Use this cheat sheet to create a date pattern for a custom date and time format.
- Repeating a symbol lengthens the component. For example, EEEE creates Wednesday, EEE creates Wed.
- To include text in your date format, add it between single quotation marks. For example: 'Date:'
| Letter | Date or Time Component | Presentation | Examples |
| G | Era designator | Text | AD |
| y | Year | Year | 1996; 96 |
| M | Month in year | Month | July; Jul; 07 |
| w | Week in year | Number | 27 |
| W | Week in month | Number | 2 |
| D | Day in year | Number | 189 |
| d | Day in month | Number | 10 |
| F | Day of week in month | Number | 2 |
| E | Day in week | Text | Tuesday; Tue |
| a | AM/PM marker | Text | PM |
| H | Hour in day (0-23) | Number | 0 |
| k | Hour in day (1-24) | Number | 24 |
| K | Hour in am/pm (0-11) | Number | 0 |
| h | Hour in am/pm (1-12) | Number | 12 |
| m | Minute in hour | Number | 30 |
| s | Second in minute | Number | 55 |
| S | Millisecond | Number | 978 |
| z | Time zone | General time zone | Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00 |
| Z | Time zone | RFC 822 time zone | -0800 |
Examples
Here are some examples:
| Pattern | Display |
| EEEE | Thursday |
| EEE | Thu |
| 'Date:' EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy | Date: Thursday, January 20, 2018 |
| EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy | Thursday, January 20, 2018 |
| EEEE' at 'hh:mm | Thursday at 3:44 PM |
| E, M, d, y | Tue, 7, 17, 2018 |
| E M'-'d, y | Tue 7-17, 2018 |