The upper date (written in bright white) is actually the episode’s title. It is generated by the Plex server at recording time if the episode title is missing from the EPG.
I have found the string which is responsible for generating this. However, the server doesn’t currently have a localization project for English (UK).
Only the web app as Plex client has one – which is generating the lower date in grey.
the first one, wouldn’t be used in the UK as far as i’ve ever seen
second one is acceptable
third one - we would normally use 12/04/2022
as a side note, it would generally be 12/04/2022 rather than 12/4/2022 (always a leading zero).
The first one is only used when there is very little room, like in the EPG mode. So something that doesn’t take many characters. The fewer, the better. But still distinguishable from other numbers. So 12/04 won’t be exactly ideal.
Screen shot taken this morning from the web interface on my Windows 10 Plex Server. The supplier of the XML TV schedule data has nothing to do with it as it is supplied in XML format which means that it is proper database structure (with labelled field names) so it is all about how Plex is programmed to display the dates. If the date/time info was wrong the DVR would not function correctly. This is a display issue although it also is affecting the way recorded series is numbered.
OK… some experimentation and I have found something interesting…
Firstly my Windows 10 Plex server had gone back to “English” not “English (UK)” so I reset that to the correct setting and saved. I happened to go back to that configuration page later and noticed that it had set itself back to just “English” (again). So I set it correctly, saved and then immediately re-started the server. The setting has now stayed at “English (UK)”.
Second… I noticed a difference in presentation between the “Desktop” client and the “Web” client on a Windows PC. But… after jumping in and out and switching between both clients several times, they are now both presenting the dates correctly. Is this a cache thing?
Anyway… it does now appear that all is well (at least for this issue) so I can only thank you all for taking the time to try and solve this and provide your feedback. It does seem that the issue was indeed a problem with my configuration. For that I can only apologise.
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The server itself doesn’t have an interface per se.
What you are talking about is the Plex web app.
And there are two of them: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200288666-opening-plex-web-app/
I recommend you to always use the hosted web app.
Do also tell your web browser to not throw away the cookies from the domain plex.tv when you close it – or your custom language setting will again go back to default.
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I confess to being insanely irritated by US date formats. Not only are they backward for everyone outside the US, but it implies staggering arrogance and ignorance that they think the rest of the world is the same as, or wants to be like the US.
That aside, reading this topic has made me realise that ‘English’ is not the correct choice when one lives in England. One has to select a spacial version of English, i.e. ‘English (UK)’. While I appreciate that this basically fixes my date formatting, it is another irritation that I, as an Englishman have to select a special ‘dialect’ of English to make things work correctly. The language choices should really be ‘English’ for genuine English, i.e. for ENGLAND and then perhaps ‘English (US)’ for those in that particular country that happens to also speak our language(ish) but with many quirks .
However, irritations aside, by choosing ‘English (UK)’, date formatting in Live/DVR now appears correct. There are ‘complaints’ above that episodes titled by their date are still MM/DD, but I can see that makes sense as normal sorting on the episode titles means they will appear in chronological order, which has to be everyone’s desired sort order does it not? Who wants to see all episodes sorted by the DAY (i.e. DD) they aired? Wouldn’t make any sense whatsoever.
So I think Plex is actually behaving correctly, once the language is correctly set, even though the ‘English’ option should mean as it is spoken in ENGLAND. 
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@UKenGB I could not agree more. As an Australian, I speak “NORMAL” English… which means “UK” English. That’s because we are a Commonwealth Country (something that Americans wouldn’t
understand). Another issue exemplifying “staggering ignorance” is that the “English” language option on American websites is often denoted by an American Flag. That is pretty incredible… isn’t it? I’m glad that Plex hasn’t yet got to that point.
what arrogance shown by yourself there.
Here we go. That is not arrogance. It is a simple fact that English emanated from ENGLAND. What’s so hard to understand about that. I’m not trying to claim any sovereignty over it, but when differentiating between different ‘variants’ of English, it makes the most sense for the base ‘English’ to be the UK variant and all others be suitably labelled to indicate their country of use.
Or would you prefer Australian to be the base/default form of English and all others labelled as different countries’ variants? Makes about as much sense as US English being the default. Whatever language that has multiple variants, the base/default (unlabelled) variant should be that in the country of origin of that language.
So I would therefore expect ‘Spanish’ to indicate the original in Spain and ‘Spanish (US)’ to be used for the US dialect. That’s just by way of illustration as I have no idea if there is any similar variation in Spanish, but the principle is the same.
This is NOT arrogance, just common sense. However, any other country claiming the base/default as their own (and any other suggestion as being somehow wrong) - now that IS arrogance.
It’s a minor point and I won’t be losing any sleep over it, but I will argue for common sense against such misguided claims.
you mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
or do you think “ENGLAND” encompasses the whole of the British English speaking population?
your arrogance in continuing to use “ENGLAND” speaks volumes. and, yes, i hold a British passport and live in the British Isles.
says Johnny Little Englander.
@herman_munster Why the hell do you think it is called “English”? You are way out of line.
I consider this thread’s original question answered and will close it now. No need to derange it with that kind of behaviour.
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