Date Formatting Issues

[Stitch10925]

The date is not formatted correctly. According to the documentation:

NOTE: All dates are formatted based on your Joplin settings in General > Date Format

But I have my date format set to YYYY-MM-DD, but it still formats new notes as DD/MM/YYYY as described by my language settings which is set to: "English (United Kingdom) 100%"

Alternatively I tried to use the custom date formatting shown in the documentation, but I can't figure out how it works. An example might help. I tried:

{{#YYYY-MM-DDDD}}
d{{/YYYY-MM-DDDD}}}}
{{#YYYY-MM-DDDD}}M

But I just get errors.

[nishantwrp]

{{#custom_datetime}}YYYY-MM-DD{{/custom_datetime}} should work.

[Stitch10925]

{{#custom_datetime}}YYYY-MM-DD{{/custom_datetime}} should work.

Ah, yes, thank you!

[unode]

@nishantwrp sorry to reopen an old thread but I am also encountering this on Linux.
All the documentation I found seems to indicate that the template dialog should respect the Tools > Options > Date format which I have set to YYYY-MM-DD, but it doesn't.

(Is this a UI bug?)

In the template I have:

---
start_date: date
end_date: date

I have tried to set LC_TIME and to change the date format and language of the interface but neither seem to have an effect.

I also tried to replace start_date: date with other variants, including custom_datetime but none were supported types.

Is there any other way to ensure the template shows a date format consistent with the settings?

[nishantwrp]

Oh, I see. After you're done selecting a date from dialog, you should see the date being inserted in the text according to your locale settings.

But I agree, the dialog UI is also a bug and should be fixed. Will open a separate issue to track this.