Configure dates to display in dd/mm/yyyy format.

[stefanmelstad23]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It can be quite confusing for people who are used to using dd/mm/yyyy to look at dates that are mm/dd/yyyy.

Describe the solution you'd like Add a boolean variable to the component configuration on the record page that switches dates to dd/mm/yyyy.

Describe alternatives you've considered Don't know of one yet.

Additional context Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

[github-actions[bot]]

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[deejay-hub]

Hi @stefanmelstad23 thanks for taking the time to raise an issue. Time Warp has been designed to be globalised. As such the date format should be automatically derived from each users locale setting. Found under Profile -> Language & Time Zone

The date and time formats are online here (https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.admin_supported_date_time_format.htm&type=5)

We double checked and this seems to be working okay. When I select English (Australian) as an example I see the date formats in dd/mm/yyyy format vs English (US) when I see mm/dd/yyyy

Can we get you to tell us which locale you are using?

[stefanmelstad23]

Hi @deejay-hub thank you for the quick response. Yea that was the first thing I checked and my locale has been set to Icelandic (Iceland) the whole time. Still it's displaying mm/dd/yyyy.

Date fields in Salesforce display dd/mm/yyyy.

[deejay-hub]

Thanks @stefanmelstad23. We use the browsers ability to convert dates. Looks like Chromium has an outstanding issue with Icelandic (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=956072&q=icelandic&can=2).

Could you try and open a Firefox browser to confirm it works there for us?

[deejay-hub]

new Intl.DateTimeFormat('is-IS', { dateStyle: 'short', timeStyle: 'long' }).format(new Date()) returns the location default for Chrome which is en AU for me and en US for you. 10/09/2022, 21:01:56 GMT+10

But should return 10.9.2022, 20:57:54 GMT+10

Chrome only supports the following locales: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:third_party/icu/scripts/chrome_ui_languages.list

Given you've taken the time to raise the issue we'll provide a workaround to switch locales in the component if the LOCALE = 'IS' and Browser is Chrome then we'll override the setting to a LOCALE with the same Date Time Format. Finnish.

This will be transparent to the user and provide a function that we can reuse for other locales not in Chrome's support language list in the future.

[stefanmelstad23]

Hi @deejay-hub great to hear that and thank you for the comprehensive responses! Do you have any timeline for this bugfix?

[deejay-hub]

It's an open source community - with people giving a best efforts time commitment - so dates are subject to change. January 2023 (Release Name - Ross) is the next release we want to make and this is the branch we're using.

[stefanmelstad23]

Completely understand. Just curious about timeline.