# Formatting help %file\_create\_datetime%
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatting-help-file-create-datetime/17474
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 18, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatting-help-file-create-datetime/17474 "2015-12-18T21:06:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jhoonkim](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jhoonkim)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatting-help-file-create-datetime/17474/1 "2015-12-18T21:06:12Z")
Hi,
I have been using mp3tag for a quite a long time to organize my music in Traktor (since Traktor doesn't read "Date Created" tags for mp3 files).
In mp3tag v2.63, I used the "Actions" feature to format the "Comment" value of an mp3 file to "%file\_create\_datetime%" so that I can organize my music chronologically in traktor. I have just gotten a new computer and used mp3tag v2.72 to do the same thing but it gave me little bit different results.
I usually got (from mp3 v2.63): YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss PM/AM
But now I get (from mp3 v2.72): MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss PM/AM
Using the v2.72 version will make it hard to "alphabetically" organize my music chronologically in Traktor.
Any fixes to this?
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatting-help-file-create-datetime/17474/2 "2015-12-19T04:54:23Z")
Mp3Tag depends on your region settings (Control Panel) in Windows.
You can set the date-format individually.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2015, 6:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatting-help-file-create-datetime/17474/3 "2015-12-19T06:44:09Z")
> [@jhoonkim](#):
>
> ... format the "Comment" value of an mp3 file to "%file\_create\_datetime%" so that I can organize my music chronologically ...
There you can find links to forum posts, which might be of interest ...
[https://www.google.de/search?q=site%3Aforum...d\_datetime\_raw%](https://www.google.de/search?q=site%3Aforums.mp3tag.de+%25_file_mod_datetime_raw%)
DD.20151219.0845.CET
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### Author:  [@jhoonkim](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jhoonkim)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatting-help-file-create-datetime/17474/4 "2015-12-20T16:49:53Z")
> [@poster](#):
>
> Mp3Tag depends on your region settings (Control Panel) in Windows.
> You can set the date-format individually.
Thank you!