[Steven Zahm]

@ Cristina

You could try rolling back to version 8.9. That was the last version where a date change was made:

https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/connections.8.9.zip

That has been the only change in quite some time and it only runs the date thru the core WP function to translate date month names into their localized translations. So I not sure why that would affect the date for the widget.

Hope this helps. Let me know what you learn.