last visited [date format] change

Hello!

Could you please help me to change the format of how the date is shown concerning the last visited sources? Now it shows
... (last visited Jul 9, 2023).

and I want to be shown as:
... (last visited 9 July 2023).

Many thanks for your help!
  • Is it really impossible to change the date format? This is a huge problem for me because the text I'm writing cannot consist of different date formats...
  • No, it's possible -- what citation style?
  • That would be awesome. The citation style is Bluebook Law Review

    Many thanks!
  • Hi again! Your help would be much appreciated
  • If you really do want to change it,
    find
    <group delimiter=" " prefix="(" suffix=")">
    <text value="last visited"/>
    <date variable="accessed">
    <date-part name="month" form="short" suffix=" " strip-periods="true"/>
    <date-part name="day" suffix=", "/>
    <date-part name="year"/>
    </date>
    </group>


    change to

    <group delimiter=" " prefix="(" suffix=")">
    <text value="last visited"/>
    <date variable="accessed">
    <date-part name="day" suffix=" "/>
    <date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
    <date-part name="year"/>
    </date>
    </group>


    See https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step for general instructions.

    That said, I'm a bit confused why you'd want to. Jul 9, 2023 is standard US date format. 9 July 2023 is not (it's typically UK English). The former is also used for other dates in Bluebook, e.g. the publication dates of newspaper articles and other items that are cited with full date, so if you want consistency, you'd really want to stay with the current style.
  • Thanks a lot for this information.

    But is there a way how to change all the dates to the UK English format? Because that is exactly what I am looking for...

    Have a great day
  • Why not use OSCOLA then? Using a US legal style with UK dates is obviously possible but... why? I'd have to go through the style and dig out the other instances of dates, so wouldn't be quick to do this with BB
  • That's a good point. I will do that.

    But just as a way of perhaps offering more options in the future, it would be an improvement if you could easily choose the format date - be it in the citations as well as in the Zotero database.

    Many thanks for your help!
  • It really depends on how a citation style is built. In some styles you can just change the locale (i.e. the language) of the style and with that it automatically switches the date styling also. Some have these date styles more hardcoded. I guess Bluebook falls in the latter.
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