I keep forgetting this, so a note to myself. Date formats in search results in SharePoint are defined by:

• For Team Sites, the sites Regional Settings
• For Collaboration Portals, the Search Center’s Regional Settings

Now, if only I can remember that this time. Often I see systems showing the dates in American date format (don’t get me started on that one!) and this is how you change the displayed format.

Of course, this raises the question of, if you have offices in, say, London and Paris, how do you support the different time zones? Hmm. I’ll have to puzzle over that.