Can I use MM-DD in a frontmatter date property while keeping MM-DD-YYYY everywhere else?

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(I’m not sure which tag would be applicable here, so I haven’t added any.)

What I’m trying to do

I have a vault where I keep data on my characters I’ve designed. I want each character’s page to have a “birthday” using properties in frontmatter, but not all of my characters have birth years yet, just months and days.

I want to be able to format the date as MM-DD in just the birthday property, while keeping MM-DD-YYYY for the rest of my vault.

Things I have tried

I have tried using the “date” format, but it automatically adds a year.

As a madeshift solution, I am just using the Text property type instead of Date and typing the Date (e.g. January 20) manually.

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ADDITION - When I was attemopting to use the ‘date’ property type, it kept using the same date when switching between notes instead of keeping the date per note.

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The format that date properties are stored in can’t be changed. The format they are displayed in is controlled by operating system settings. https://obsidian.md/help/properties#Date

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Oof. That sucks, but thanks for confirming! I’ll keep on with my “fake date” text type property then - thank you! :+1:

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I should have mentioned, there are some feature requests that might interest you:

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This was helpful, thank you!