Hi trfletch

If you change the locale in the web.config to uk english the datepicker will use UK date formats.

I think it's in the globalization section, as such:

<globalization requestEncoding="UTF-8" responseEncoding="UTF-8" uiCulture="en" culture="en-GB" />

Dan

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the response, I tried your suggestion but it doesn't appear to have made any difference. The datapicker field is still showing 2010-04-01 for todays date

poop.  Perhaps uiCulture must be en-GB too?

This is a massive problem for me too... How do I get the datepicker to display/store date as d/m/yyyy format?

Hi Dan,

No luck I'm afraid, I now have  

<globalization requestEncoding="UTF-8" responseEncoding="UTF-8" uiCulture="en-GB" culture="en-GB" />   

but it is still showing in the same "backwards" format.

You can't change it. It's hard-coded. Perhaphs create a new item on Codeplex to get it changed in future versions.

I think this way of display is the best option though, there cannot be any confusion about the writing. If you see dd-mm-yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy it tends to confuse people and often result in wrong dates.

If you really want it localised, you could create your own datatype that has the way of displaying you like.

HTH,

Peter

You could use this datetimepicker datatype.  http://our.umbraco.org/projects/skiltzdatetimepicker

Hi,

Back to this issue again, I managed to resolve it for my date picker by using a custom datatype but I now have the same issue for the Published dates on the node which uses the same format. Is there any way of changing them so they are displayed DD/MM/YYYY?

Anyone know about this? Also is it possible to free type into the Publish dates fields or do you have to select something from the calendar?

Has anyone figured this out? I need to change the format for all dates displayed in the properties tab of each node ... the created, last published, and last edited dates, etc.

We've spent a day and half on this to little avail and I just wrote a detailed post about it. Thanks in advance!
http://our.umbraco.org/forum/using/ui-questions/29038-Change-Date-Format-in-Properties-Tab-(TinyMCE-bug)  

Any update on this issue?

I'll also second that request. True, us Americans really should go metric and also input dates in yyyy-mm-dd format, but until we wise up, my users ask whether the standard DatePicker datatype could accept "m/d/yy" formatted dates by default, which I can't seem to get working.

(Modifying the web.config key to read <globalization requestEncoding="UTF-8" responseEncoding="UTF-8" uiCulture="en-US" culture="en-US" /> didn't change how the UI displays the DatePicker control.)

Hi

I think I have a solution that works.

@CurrentPage.StartDate.ToString("f") displays 

Thursday, January 31, 2013 12:00 AM on date picker with time.

Sure the answer you need is here somewhere, has most options for US and European formats.

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/111010-1.aspx

Hope this helps G

I'm having the same problem.

I'm using the Umbraco DateTypes in the frontend of the website, but the datepicker won't format the date by the hostname culture. Also al the true/false datatypes display "Yes".

I don't understand why these controls don't work properly, bacasue they are in it from the beginning and this issue is 3 years old!

I had the same issue, but I've discovered a solution...:

1. Edit <root>\Umbraco_Client\Ui\jqueryui.js file, changing the line begining with "(function ($, undefined) { function Datepicker()" (in my case, line 65) exactly "this.regional[""] = { }" section. Here you can translate labels, month names, day names, and first day of week!
2.  Edit <root>\Umbraco_Client\DateTimePickers\timepicker.js file, changing in "_generateHtml: function ()" the "html" variable (in my case, line 288), translating text for Hour and Minutes.
3. Edit <root>\Config\ClientDependency.config file, increasing value of "<clientDependency version="x" ...".

Then just refresh page in your browser and you can get your DatePicker customized ;-)

It works for me in Umbraco v6.1.2 at backend.

I hope this solution helps...

I do hate to bring up old threads, but I have an install of 7.1.6 and regardless of what I set the user to it does not change the date format of the date field. I've also set the globalization in my web.config set to <globalization requestEncoding="UTF-8" responseEncoding="UTF-8" uiCulture="en-US" culture="en-US" /> still no changes. I also updated the datetimepicker view html and changed the data-format and it didn't work.

I have also manually set the bootstrap-datetimepicker.min.js format to not look for anything and hardcoded this.format = 'MM/dd/yyyy'; in. still nothing. 

I have submitted a PR in order to allow custom formats for datepicker. It Will be available in Umbraco 7.3.0. Hope that helps someone.

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