Properties: Date format not following system settings on Windows 10

[TokyoMike]

Steps to reproduce

Platform: WINDOWS. I have one system set to system local English, short date format YYYY-MM-DD and one system set to local Japanese, short date format YYYY-MM-DD. On my English local system when I create a property called “created” and enter the date 2023-10-14 it shows up correctly in the property viewer. On my system with Japanese local, short date format YYYY-MM-DD the created property value the same, it appears as MM-DD-YYYY.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

I disabled everything - tested on two sandbox vaults.

Expected result

I want to have the local set to Japanese and the date to follow the short date format of my system!

Actual result

Described above - date in Japanese local, short date format YYYY-MM-DD is displayed as MM-DD-YYYY

Environment

English local system: Windows 10, Japanese local system: Windows 11.

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Additional information

[Cindanela]

I’m having the same problem, when I use English, on windows 11. If I change system language to Swedish it works ok.
Swedish System Language with Swedish Region Settings show correctly:

But with English System language and Swedish region setting it show “10/14/2023 08:05”

[WhiteNoise]

The regional settings/format should stay fixed (even if you switch languages) and can be customized the way you want.

To check your settings are correct, you can look at how the date is displayed on window taskbar. It should look the way you set up “short date” in regional format. After that, obsidian (and chrome) will follow (a restart of Obsidian might be needed).

[ImmaterialAardvark]

I’m having the same problem. I use my system (Windows 10) in English, but my localization is in Brazilian Portuguese. Obsidian does not recognize the Windows localization settings and serves me the dates in en-US format.

The screenshots below show my localization settings and how Obsidian shows the dates. Also, other software like Office and Firefox renders dates correctly.

[WhiteNoise]

How does the windows clock on the taskbar look like?

[rigmarole]

Just replying to link this related Feature Request for future reference: Properties: let the user customize the way Dates/Times are displayed (independently from OS) - #52 by barabasz

[blue_emperor]

Hi. Is number display format in number properties (thousand separator and decimal separator) determined by OS settings or something different?

[ImmaterialAardvark]

Sorry for the late answer. The windows clock shows the date in the correct format.

[WhiteNoise]

@ImmaterialAardvark ok, now post a screenshot of the date in Obsidian, both in the properties UI and in source mode.

[ImmaterialAardvark]

Hi @WhiteNoise, sorry for the late reponse again, but I do a lot of field work, and don’t check this forum to often as I should.

Here are the screenshots:

In properties UI:

In source mode:

[WhiteNoise]

If you open chrome and go on this page. How does the date input look like?

[ImmaterialAardvark]

In Vivaldi, the date shows in en-US format (screenshot bellow).

[WhiteNoise]

Ok than this is either a Windows bug or a chromium bug.

[ImmaterialAardvark]

Maybe. Vivaldi settings shows configuration almost correctly, but it shows the wrong date only in forms in sites.

[ImmaterialAardvark]

Just an update, after formatting my PC because of unrelated problems, in Windows 11, my Properties now work as intended. I have no idea why, though.

[vukisz]

Hello. Got similar issue on Windows 11.
I would like to see YYYY-MM-DD, but I dee mm/dd/yyyy.

1. Obsidian shows mm/dd/yyyy
2. Windows taskbar shows YYYY-MM-DD
3. Short dare windows format is YYYY-MM-DD
4. Chrome date input shows mm/dd/yyyy

Any workarounds for this?

Screenshot:

[rigmarole]

@cmhorn

The only answer I have ever seen

The “answer” is that this is marked as a known and reproducible upstream bug.

You saw what was most likely a bug-testing step to help narrow down where the problem was coming from. Not a proposed solution.

[prdlik]

Did you find solution? I have the same problem - want to have DD/MM/YY and in properties is MM/DD/YY.

WIN10
App - v1.6.2.

[Timme]

Any update on this? In windows 10 the format follows Windows display language setting, not regional format settings like it should:
Laguage set to Finnish

Laguage set to English (US)