Obsidian’s preview (reader) will take any front-matter date it recognizes, turn it into a Date object, then render it in your system’s locale (in your case “DD/MM/YYYY”). There isn’t a “global” switch in Obsidian to force all front-matter dates back into ISO format in preview. Please fix this issue. …

ISO Date Display

anon80950206 June 28, 2025, 3:47pm 2

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Properties: let the user customize the way Dates/Times are displayed (independently from OS) Feature requests

Mod-Note: This FR is specifically about customizing the way dates are displayed not the format they are written on file. Currently, the displayed format follows what you have chosen at OS-level. Use case or problem As far as I could see, how dates/times are displayed within Properties seems to be device dependent instead of just re-using the format from the YAML. My device was not set to use dates formatted as YYYY-MM-DD and I had to go and change these settings so Properties would actually …

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