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

Not being able to change the date format has bothered me for a long time. I might even have contributed to this thread but there’s so many posts that the forum makes it hard to find them. Or maybe it was Discord, it’s been a while since I last mentioned it but it bothers me literally every day.

There are dedicated Windows date format and Linux date format issue threads, with Mac users leaving posts confirming problems in the replies as well.

There’s people posting registry hacks to try to work around it. Suggestions for setting various environment variables and command line arguments that might give the user control.

Honestly, trying to fix the underlying issue seems like it isn’t going to happen, due to whatever is going in in Electron-land.

Overriding it with a user-defined value is a feature that people are requesting regardless.

Seems like it would be a good solution for all of the people having locale issues too.

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