Date fields do not appear to be localised, at least for the UK where I’m based. This is a bigger problem than you might think, because people in the UK who aren’t programmers often have no idea that the US uses a different date format, and obviously there are lots of dates where the format overlaps …

Hey @webworkshop we should already localise the dates automatically based on the user agent of your browser. We’ll soon give the option to select that, but for now should work automatically. Can you please try with a GB locale and see if that works better? From what you’re saying I’m not sure you a…

Do you mean the following option? [image] I hadn’t noticed that there is a UK-specific one before. When I go to change it I get a scary message. Is there a way to change the locale without deleting all my content? [image] [image]

If you change that it will delete all your content, yes, don’t do it :slight_smile: The display of dates and times should depend on the browser’s locale, it isn’t working as you would expect? We’ll allow customisation of that in user’s preferences, but it’s not in the pipeline yet, sorry.

[image] mat_jack1: The display of dates and times should depend on the browser’s locale, it isn’t working as you would expect? Not as far as I can see, no. Here’s a datetime field in Safari and Firefox on my machine (macOS 10.15.2, with language and region set to “United Kingdom”): [Screens…

yes, that looks wrong to me, we’ll investigate and get back to you

@webworkshop we’ve launched this now: [date-time-format] that should address your issue!

That’s great, how do you get to this screen? I can’t see it in the model settings.

Date (& DateTime) Field is Not Localised

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mat_jack1 September 4, 2020, 8:45am 9

It’s a user setting, have a look here:

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Date (& DateTime) Field is Not Localised

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