I have been trying to setup an application to use uk date formats as default. The way you used to do this was via an initialiser: Date::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(:default => "%d/%m/%Y") Time::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(:default => "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M") I believe you can also alter the en.yml file to allow this as well: en: date: formats: default: "%d/%m/%Y" After doing this the console Date.today.to_s shows the date in the correct format "27/6/2011" however I cannot get the forms to use this format as default. The form text_fields continue to have the yyyy-mm- dd format. The workaround I have found is to use f.text_field :arrival_date, :value => f.object.arrival_date.to_s but this just seems wrong. Any ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.