diff -u b/core/modules/migrate/src/Plugin/migrate/process/FormatDate.php b/core/modules/migrate/src/Plugin/migrate/process/FormatDate.php
--- b/core/modules/migrate/src/Plugin/migrate/process/FormatDate.php
+++ b/core/modules/migrate/src/Plugin/migrate/process/FormatDate.php
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  * - from_format: The source format string as accepted by
  *   @link http://php.net/manual/datetime.createfromformat.php \DateTime::createFromFormat. @endlink
  * - to_format: The destination format.
- * - from_timezone: String identifying the required source time zone, see
+ * - timezone: String identifying the required source time zone, see
  *   DateTimePlus::__construct().
  * - to_timezone: String identifying the required destination time zone, see
  *   DateTimePlus::__construct().
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
  *     plugin: format_date
  *     from_format: 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sO'
  *     to_format: 'Y-m-d\TH:i:s'
- *     from_timezone: 'America/Managua'
+ *     timezone: 'America/Managua'
  *     to_timezone: 'UTC'
  *     settings:
  *       validate_format: false
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 
     $fromFormat = $this->configuration['from_format'];
     $toFormat = $this->configuration['to_format'];
-    $from_timezone = isset($this->configuration['from_timezone']) ? $this->configuration['from_timezone'] : NULL;
+    $from_timezone = isset($this->configuration['timezone']) ? $this->configuration['timezone'] : NULL;
     $to_timezone = isset($this->configuration['to_timezone']) ? $this->configuration['to_timezone'] : $from_timezone;
     $settings = isset($this->configuration['settings']) ? $this->configuration['settings'] : [];
 
diff -u b/core/modules/migrate/tests/src/Unit/process/FormatDateTest.php b/core/modules/migrate/tests/src/Unit/process/FormatDateTest.php
--- b/core/modules/migrate/tests/src/Unit/process/FormatDateTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/migrate/tests/src/Unit/process/FormatDateTest.php
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
         'configuration' => [
           'from_format' => 'Y-m-d h:i:s',
           'to_format' => 'Y-m-d h:i:s',
-          'from_timezone' => 'America/Managua',
+          'timezone' => 'America/Managua',
           'to_timezone' => 'UTC',
         ],
         'value' => '2004-12-19 10:19:42',
reverted:
--- b/sites/default/default.settings.php
+++ a/sites/default/default.settings.php
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
  * );
  * @endcode
  */
+$databases = array();
- $databases = array();
 
 /**
  * Customizing database settings.
@@ -643,6 +643,7 @@
  * configuration values in settings.php will not fire any of the configuration
  * change events.
  */
+# $config['system.file']['path']['temporary'] = '/tmp';
 # $config['system.site']['name'] = 'My Drupal site';
 # $config['system.theme']['default'] = 'stark';
 # $config['user.settings']['anonymous'] = 'Visitor';
@@ -750,6 +751,16 @@
 ];
 
 /**
+ * The default number of entities to update in a batch process.
+ *
+ * This is used by update and post-update functions that need to go through and
+ * change all the entities on a site, so it is useful to increase this number
+ * if your hosting configuration (i.e. RAM allocation, CPU speed) allows for a
+ * larger number of entities to be processed in a single batch run.
+ */
+$settings['entity_update_batch_size'] = 50;
+
+/**
  * Load local development override configuration, if available.
  *
  * Use settings.local.php to override variables on secondary (staging,