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

(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.

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.

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:

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

This was helpful, thank you!