Ability to change date format used

[forsgren]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Dates seem to be displayed as “[month] [day number] [year]”, e.g. “Nov 04, 2021”. And when using the date picker it’s displayed as “11.04.2021”. This format is hard to get used to, since it:

1. Is not used in my (and a lot of other) countries
2. Does not “sort” logically, the same way as “YYYY-MM-DD” does.

Describe the solution you’d like
I would like to be able to set the date format to “YYYY-MM-DD”, according to ISO 8601. A nice bonus would be to be able to use variables to set up custom date formats - but at least add “YYYY-MM-DD”

[sambouwer]

Hi @forsgren, thanks for sharing your suggestion for improving Anytype! I found a similar topics:

Allow for option to customize the day on which the week starts

Currently when using the date-picker, the week starts on Sunday, this is very counter intuitive if you’re used to it starting on Monday (or any other day). An option to change this would be very nice!

In that topic I suggested to allow Anytype to follow the host/system’s locale to be followed in the format for displaying dates and times, but your suggestion could be an extension of that to allow any format to be selected.