Title: Language for date/timepicker
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Language for date/timepicker

 *  [gnorf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnorf/)
 * (@gnorf)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-for-datetimepicker/)
 * Hi
 * Been struggling to find the right place to make changes. Months/weekdays and 
   time (info text) is displayed in english.
 * What is needed to change default language for this function?
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-datepicker/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-datepicker/)

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 *  [K.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaygeee/)
 * (@kaygeee)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-for-datetimepicker/#post-6805876)
 * In your wordrpress Settings> General > Site Language
 * Change that and the form will follow 😉
 * Greetings,
 * KG
 *  Thread Starter [gnorf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnorf/)
 * (@gnorf)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-for-datetimepicker/#post-6805877)
 * Hi there and thanks.
 * The language setting in WP was already in order/changed but seems to have no 
   impact on the datepicker function.
 * Any other altrnatives?
 * Rgds
 *  [K.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaygeee/)
 * (@kaygeee)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-for-datetimepicker/#post-6805880)
 * Hi gnorf,
    There is always the hard way of doing it 😛
 * Go to your theme editor under: Appearance > Editor, and find footer.php
 * 1. Put the script below just below the “<?php wp_footer(); ?>” or just above 
   the “</body>” tag. (depends on your theme)
    —- <script type=”text/javascript”
   src=”[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jquery/jquery-ui/master/ui/i18n/datepicker-de.js”></script&gt](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jquery/jquery-ui/master/ui/i18n/datepicker-de.js”></script&gt);—-
 * you need to change the “-de” part to whatever language you want…
    look here for
   the list of languages: [https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/tree/master/ui/i18n](https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/tree/master/ui/i18n)
 * Mine is “de” as in German… you need to find yours.
 * 2. Find the file below and remove or comment out line 55.
    The piece of code 
   you looking for on line 55 looks like this : dateFormat: ‘yy-mm-dd’,
 * —-
    /wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/js/scripts.js —-
 * This will allow you to change the date format to the one in your country.
    (which
   is correctly specified inside the first .js you put inside the footer.php)
 * You can skip step 2. if you don’t care about date format.
 * 3. Refresh your browser and take a look.
 * 4. Done.
 * Step 1 is safe, Step 2 will be gone once you update contact form 7.
 * This solves the problem until Contact Form 7 lets us choose our own dateFormat
   and Localization of the jQuery datepicker in future updates… PLEASE?
 * Greetings,
 * K G

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 * Last reply from: [K.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaygeee/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-for-datetimepicker/#post-6805880)
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