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

jakehopking

last week

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?

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.

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.

and

pickerAppearance

is throwing type and console errors??

jesschow
Payload Team
last week
Hey @jakehopking, 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
jakehopking
last week
Thanks for this info @jesschow - is it possible to set this at a global level?
jesschow
Payload Team
last week
@jakehopking currently it is not possibly to set this at a global level but I can definitely see the benefit in that - we should open a feature request for this 👍

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