Is there a way to change the format for dates in the admin UI? | Payload | Page 1

peak summit Mar 9, 2023, 1:37 PM

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I don't want to use the US or UK standard for dates (mm/dd/yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy respectively), and would like them to display as yyyy/mm/dd

Can we set this as a global preference?

peak summit Mar 9, 2023, 2:01 PM

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This date is horrible for me to read... the day/month is ambiguous and I've made a whole array of errors here thinking that this was UK formatted dates and not US. As said I'd prefer ISO date here to remove any ambiguity.

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admin: {
  displayFormat: 'YYYY/MM/DD',
},

Produces console errors.

I've checked your docs, and I can't see a guide on how these can be formatted. I only see the default formatting.

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and pickerAppearance is throwing type and console errors??

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deft sphinx Mar 9, 2023, 2:53 PM

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Hey @peak summit, you need to nest displayFormat in a date object:

admin: {
    date: {
        displayFormat: 'yyyy/MM/dd',
    }
}

There is an example here but it could definitely be clearer in the docs: https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/date#example

Also you will get errors for YYYY and DD because they are not valid tokens so change that to yyyy/MM/dd, read more about that here https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns/blob/main/docs/unicodeTokens.md

peak summit Mar 9, 2023, 3:33 PM

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Thanks for this info @deft sphinx - is it possible to set this at a global level?

#Is there a way to change the format for dates in the admin UI?