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Hi,

You can change the date format in: Administer > Localisation > Date formats.

I think it's the "Complete date/time", you can select a format such as: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M

This uses ISO8601 date formats, which is the official format for Canada and many other countries. It also avoids any language-specifics, such as "10th".

One limitation: localization settings are common between languages. That includes date formats, currency format and decimal/thousands separator.

Sorry for responding late! Hopefully it can be useful for other people finding this question via a search engine.

Mathieu

Hmm, on my sandbox, "%B" works for the full month name. I think the "fr_CA.utf8" locale needs  to be enabled server-wide ("locale -a" on the command line).

The date is formatted by crmDate in smarty, which calls CRM_Utils_Date::customFormat(), and this relies on strftime() to enerate month names. strftime() is depandant on setlocale, so the locale needs to be enabled by the system.
http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php