Blogger does it again

I know Blogger is a free option, but I would hope they would have learned something from the last time they 'upgraded'. This time, they've modified how comments work. The only problem is, what you see isn't what you get.

This is what you see:


But this is what you get:


And neither is what I asked for. As far as I can tell, the only way to effectively change the date format is to republish your entire blog which is not something I want to do.

UPDATE: I've been playing around and it seems the date formatting works UNLESS you select the very first format in the list. It does not like that one and will default back to whichever format was selected last. Naturally, that is the format I prefer.