How to change the date format in the Properties view?

cmeeren · May 30, 2025, 5:29pm

Here’s the source for a note, showing a date in the YYYY-MM-DD format which is what I expect:

Here’s how it’s rendered, in MM/DD/YYYY format:

Here are my regional settings, showing that the format I am using on Windows is DD.MM.YYYY:

Is there any way I can configure Obsidian’s rendered date format in the Properties view, or make it follow my system setting? I haven’t found any setting in Obsidian to do this.

cvanhenten · July 23, 2025, 3:03pm

same problem, no answer yet

bear13 · July 23, 2025, 5:21pm

Still looking for that option as well.
I only use the ISO Format for readabilty and sorting purposes and don’t want a local format at all

Pch · July 23, 2025, 5:53pm

There’s a whole feature request dedicated to this :

There are also some info in the topic on how that “works”/how to set it up on Windows and Linux
(Being on Mac, this is something I just don’t know about)