# Datetime\_select field order and month list

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/datetime-select-field-order-and-month-list/159427>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 4, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/datetime-select-field-order-and-month-list/159427 "2009-02-04T13:41:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![kinunt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/7c8e57/32.png) [@kinunt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kinunt)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/datetime-select-field-order-and-month-list/159427/1 "2009-02-04T13:41:29Z")

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Hi!

I’ve searched throw Google and this forum and I found some answers and  
some tickets but I would like to know the actual situation. I’ve seen  
solutions for date\_select but not for datetime\_select.

First: Is it possible to specify a list of months to be used in  
datetime\_select? I want to translate the month names to other language  
and I would prefer not to use one of those localization plugins by now.

Second: Is it possible to change the field order of the day, month, etc  
in the datetime\_select helper?

Thanks.