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Option to change the date format in the admin dashboard

Please, give an option to change the date format in the admin dashboard.
This was possible in v3 through simple customizations but it would be much better to have the option from the global settings of the admin dashboard.
see: https://github.com/strapi/strapi/issues/12216

Created by Derrick Mehaffy

April 18, 2022

Maksim Efremov

Hi everyone!
I ran into the same issue today as well. However, I managed to find an option that worked for me, and maybe it will be useful for others too.
I added the en-GB
 locale to the /src/admin/app
 file (see this guide). After that, it becomes possible to select "English (UK)" in the profile settings, and dates and times are displayed in the expected format.
Each new admin panel user needs to manually change the language in their profile settings for this to work.
Hope this helps someone.

jwalcher

I have a

time

field that is meant to specify a duration, and used as such in the front end. After recent upgrade to Strapi 5, I noticed the field has a 12h am/pm format. This is quite awkward for a duration, and different from both the way it was in Strapi 4, as well as from the

datetime

field, whose time component is 24h format. As other commenters, I would very much welcome more flexibility in the admin panel formatting.

Matthew Knill

Australian here and I find this very annoying that it doesn't take into account the locale for the date format.

Nevil Hewitt

Looks like a Strapi strategic decision which upsets non-US customers.
Browsers by default use the local date format when using html input.
In earlier version of Strapi 3, it used the local date format.
Strapi subsequently has overwritten the default.

Steve Hardy

this would be really useful functionality for us - please do develop, thx v much

This is essential functionality for us, please develop.

Most important: A global setting to change the date input fields to UK dates for all users, so when I type 5/4/00 I get 5th April 2000 not 4th May 2000. Also show the dates in table columns in UK date format e.g. Wednesday 27 August 2025
Ability to choose short date display options for dates in columns. One setting for all global users would be fine: e.g. DDD DD MMM YY would show: Wed 27 Aug 25 and save a lot of scrolling.
Ability to set 1 and/or 2 at the user level, overriding the global setting.

Thanks

Andrew Ermicioi

any update on this issue yet ?

Chris Borg

This is a requirement for non-US users as 9/4/24 is understood as 9th April in other countries. Any updates on this please?

Kellen Busby

I specifically want to be able to change the relative date (i.e. "2 months ago") in the information panel of an entry to a specific datetime. Controlling the format of the datetime would be great to but I wouldn't be picky :)

Sam Tolton

I also need this feature. We are not in the US and the US date format confuses users of the admin panel. 02/02/2024 is ambiguous unless you have been told that the admin panel displays dates in US format.

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