I am trying to setup an application so that the dates when displayed default to english format ie "dd/mm/yyyy" In rails 2 you used to do it via an initializer: Date::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(:default => "%d/%m/%Y") Time::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(:default => "%d/%m/%Y") In rails 3 I believe you do it via the en.yml file and set something like : en: date: formats: default: "%d/%m/%Y" I have tried both methods with rails 3.1 and although the console seems to work Date.today.to_s => "27/06/2011" and the locale is showing correctly I18n.t "date.formats.default" => "%d/%m/%Y" the form continues to display the date fields as "YYYY-MM-DD". I could translate each field in turn but this makes a mockery of the default formats. Any ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.